fix(plugins): web mode lookups use the modes the display registered (#668)

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Closes #668.

Problem

A plugin can compute its display modes from config — soccer-scoreboard registers soccer_<league>_live/recent/upcoming for every custom_leagues entry, which no manifest can list ahead of time. The display already rotated them (_register_loaded_plugin prefers plugin.modes), but the web process reads plugins as files, so:

• GET /display/modes and the on-demand dialog never listed them
• POST /display/on-demand/start with a mode and no plugin_id 404'd (find_plugin_for_mode saw only manifests)

Fix

Rather than the display_mode_patterns manifest key the issue floated (a pattern can validate a name but can't populate a dropdown), the display tells the web what it registered, over the channel it already uses for runtime state:

• PluginStateManager.record_modes() — _register_loaded_plugin (the one path every load / enable / reload takes) records the registered modes on the plugin's loaded record. Unload or a reload's fresh record_loaded() forgets them. Unchanged lists don't move change_count, so no extra SD-card writes.
• Runtime snapshot carries them per plugin as modes (capped at 200, each clipped); PluginRuntimeView.display_modes() reports them only while the view is live.
• PluginCatalog takes a runtime_source (wired in app.py to _plugin_runtime_view). get_plugin_display_modes / find_plugin_for_mode prefer the live modes and fall back to the manifest when the display is stopped/stale or hasn't loaded the plugin. The view is memoised for 1 s so a listing is one read, not one per plugin.

No manifest or plugin changes needed. Docs: ARCHITECTURE.md, REST_API_REFERENCE.md.

Tests

• New test/test_live_display_modes.py (21): state recording and change counting, unload/reload, controller registration (and that a failing state manager can't break it), snapshot bounds, live vs stale/stopped views, catalog preference + fallbacks, one read per listing, and /display/modes end-to-end over a real shared cache listing a custom league.
• test_first_tick_publishes updated for the new modes key.
• Full suite on Windows: 62 failed / 6 errors, identical test IDs on the unmodified base commit (Windows-only: chown, real sockets, systemd, Starlark/pixlet, resource monitor). No new failures. Post-rebase, the affected files pass (207).

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• New Features
  • Display mode listings and lookups now include modes registered by running plugins, including dynamically generated modes. When the display is stopped or runtime modes are unavailable, manifest-declared modes remain available as a fallback.
• Documentation
  • Clarified how display mode listings and lookups behave while the display is running or stopped.

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• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
• docs/REST_API_REFERENCE.md
• src/display_controller.py
• src/plugin_system/plugin_catalog.py
• src/plugin_system/plugin_runtime.py
• src/plugin_system/plugin_state.py
• test/test_api_v3_display_modes.py
• test/test_live_display_modes.py
• test/test_plugin_runtime_snapshot.py
• web_interface/app.py
• web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/display.py
• web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/plugins.py

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The display records plugin-registered modes in runtime state and snapshots. The catalog now prefers modes from a live runtime view over manifest declarations. When runtime mode data is unavailable, catalog lookups fall back to manifest modes.

Changes

Runtime display modes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and publish registered modes src/display_controller.py, src/plugin_system/plugin_state.py, src/plugin_system/plugin_runtime.py, test/test_live_display_modes.py, test/test_plugin_runtime_snapshot.py	Plugin registration records resolved display modes for loaded plugins. Runtime snapshots publish filtered mode lists, and live runtime views expose those modes. Tests cover state updates, registration, snapshot filtering, and runtime-view behavior.
Use live modes in catalog lookups src/plugin_system/plugin_catalog.py, web_interface/app.py, web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/*, test/test_live_display_modes.py, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/REST_API_REFERENCE.md	The catalog checks live registered modes before manifest declarations and falls back to manifest modes when live data is unavailable. The web application supplies the runtime view. Tests and documentation cover catalog lookup and display-mode listing behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DisplayController
  participant PluginStateManager
  participant PluginRuntimeSnapshot
  participant PluginRuntimeView
  participant PluginCatalog
  participant DisplayModesAPI
  DisplayController->>PluginStateManager: record resolved display modes
  PluginRuntimeSnapshot->>PluginStateManager: read runtime records with modes
  PluginRuntimeSnapshot->>PluginRuntimeView: publish snapshot containing modes
  DisplayModesAPI->>PluginCatalog: request display modes
  PluginCatalog->>PluginRuntimeView: read modes for plugin
  PluginRuntimeView-->>PluginCatalog: return live registered modes or no live modes
  PluginCatalog-->>DisplayModesAPI: return live modes or manifest modes

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 55442

Mode selection can show a different screen from the one requested, or expose a mode name the display cannot select. Resolve these lookup and dispatch mismatches before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 55442

The change preserves existing execution checks, but shortened mode identifiers can select unintended content, and failed reloads can leave outdated modes advertised. These are bounded identity and recovery risks; no new privilege escalation was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Runtime publication clips mode names to 100 characters, but the display retains the original dispatch keys. The catalog exposes the clipped strings as selectable command identifiers. A clipped identifier that is unavailable can silently select the plugin's first mode; one that matches another registered key can resolve to that key's owner. This newly lossy bridge weakens end-to-end mode and plugin identity. The defaulting behavior predates the PR, and no privilege escalation is established.
• Low · reliability · observed: The newly published mode registry can outlive controller registration during a detached reload. Dispatch maps are removed before teardown; a teardown lock timeout returns without clearing the loaded record or its modes, and terminal reload handling does not invalidate them. A fresh runtime view can therefore advertise modes no longer registered for execution. This extends an existing lifecycle inconsistency into the new public contract and weakens recovery-state reporting. Normal cleanup clears the record, and the display rejects activation while a reload is still in progress.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated effects concern one display control plane and its plugin namespace: which modes are advertised, which plugin a request identifies, and which registered content runs. The inspected path does not establish cross-tenant, credential, or infrastructure authority expansion; deployment-wide exposure remains unestablished.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A party able to influence a plugin's registered names can supply a long or colliding name that crosses publication and catalog lookup into an on-demand request. Lossy names can select unintended content or a different registered owner. This is an identity-integrity risk, not a verified authentication bypass or privilege escalation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Runtime modes are suppressed for non-live views. Snapshot evaluation considers schema, publication age, running status, process existence, and heartbeat freshness. Explicit HTTP plugin identifiers must be discovered, and activation requires a current registered mode with a mapped owner. These controls do not guarantee exact requested-mode identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Successful teardown clears lifecycle state, and activation is blocked while a reload job is active. Detached teardown timeout instead leaves publication state intact after dispatch removal. Process-level freshness checks cannot detect this per-plugin registration mismatch.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separate bounded display labels from exact executable identifiers, bind mode resolution to an explicit owner, and invalidate published registration authority when reload detaches a plugin. Preserve resource bounds without turning clipped strings into command keys.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: web mode lookups now use modes registered by the running display.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	[ #668 ] The PR records modes registered by the display, publishes them in live runtime snapshots, and makes PluginCatalog use them for mode listings and plugin lookup. This supports config-generated …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The state, snapshot, catalog, web wiring, tests, and documentation changes all support [ #668 ] by making display-registered modes available to web mode listings and lookup. No unrelated changes are e…

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Review comments at @src/plugin_system/plugin_catalog.py:
- Around line 243-246: Update the manifest fallback search so it considers a
plugin’s manifest modes only when that plugin has no live mode list. Use
_live_display_modes to skip plugins with registered modes, and preserve manifest
matching for plugins without live modes.
- Around line 245-246: Update the lookup around the live-mode match to preserve
the matching registered mode name, and ensure start_on_demand_display dispatches
that canonical name rather than the caller’s casing.

Review comments at @src/plugin_system/plugin_runtime.py:
- Line 164: Update the mode snapshot construction to preserve each registered
mode identifier exactly instead of passing it through _clip. Keep the _MAX_MODES
limit so the snapshot remains bounded, and leave clipping for other fields
unchanged.

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• src/plugin_system/plugin_state.py
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