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Archive an app from its page or the apps list: spun down, hidden, restorable in one tap #10844

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Admins can now archive an app from its page or from `/apps` behind a confirm, and restore it from the Archived filter. The earlier red check came from a branch 34 commits behind `main`, so I merged `main` in. After that, gate, `tsc`, design-lint, `bun test test/mcp-size.test.ts` and the archive and apps tests I ran all passed. I did not run the full suite: the diff reaches 1,530 test files, which…

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Admins can now archive an app from its page or from /apps behind a confirm, and restore it from the Archived filter. The earlier red check came from a branch 34 commits behind main, so I merged main in. After that, gate, tsc, design-lint, bun test test/mcp-size.test.ts and the archive and apps tests I ran all passed. I did not run the full suite: the diff reaches 1,530 test files, which scripts/fast.ts puts at about 131 minutes, so I left it to the forge's check. I also did not start the app or try the buttons in a browser.

What changed

  • Archive: the app page (src/web/studio/app.ts) and each row on /apps get an Archive button. It opens a confirm line, and Confirm archive is the real submit. Nothing is archived until that second tap.
  • Same route as before: both post to the existing /settings/archive route, so the app stops, leaves Home and the default list, and keeps its data and git. A non-admin sees no button and the post is refused.
  • Restore: /apps has an Archived filter (shown when something is archived) with a Restore button on each row. The app page of an archived app shows "Archived on <date>" and a Restore button. The old "Wake" button is now "Restore", and the "N archived" link is replaced by the filter.
  • New module: src/web/pages/archive_forms.ts holds the Archive and Restore forms, shared by the app page, the list and the repo page.
  • Docs and tests: docs/features/archive-app.md describes the steps, and test/apps-archived.test.ts is extended. The existing archive* and apps-archive* tests cover hidden, still reachable by URL, and restore.

What I chose not to do

  • MCP: I added no new MCP action. src/actions/repos.ts already has setArchived and the updateRepoSettings archive path, which the MCP uses, with test/archive-mcp.test.ts covering it. The size ceilings are untouched.
  • Forks: I did not touch how archiving a repo others fork behaves.

Try it: as an admin, open /apps, tap Archive on a row and Confirm archive. The row disappears. Open Archived and tap Restore.

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Closes #10779

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Admins can now archive an app from its page or from /apps behind a confirm, and restore it from the Archived filter. The earlier red check came from a branch 34 commits behind main, so I merged main in. After that, gate, tsc, design-lint, bun test test/mcp-size.test.ts and the archive and apps tests I ran all passed. I did not run the full suite: the diff reaches 1,530 test files, which scripts/fast.ts puts at about 131 minutes, so I left it to the forge's check. I also did not start the app or try the buttons in a browser.

What changed

  • Archive: the app page (src/web/studio/app.ts) and each row on /apps get an Archive button. It opens a confirm line, and Confirm archive is the real submit. Nothing is archived until that second tap.
  • Same route as before: both post to the existing /settings/archive route, so the app stops, leaves Home and the default list, and keeps its data and git. A non-admin sees no button and the post is refused.
  • Restore: /apps has an Archived filter (shown when something is archived) with a Restore button on each row. The app page of an archived app shows "Archived on <date>" and a Restore button. The old "Wake" button is now "Restore", and the "N archived" link is replaced by the filter.
  • New module: src/web/pages/archive_forms.ts holds the Archive and Restore forms, shared by the app page, the list and the repo page.
  • Docs and tests: docs/features/archive-app.md describes the steps, and test/apps-archived.test.ts is extended. The existing archive* and apps-archive* tests cover hidden, still reachable by URL, and restore.

What I chose not to do

  • MCP: I added no new MCP action. src/actions/repos.ts already has setArchived and the updateRepoSettings archive path, which the MCP uses, with test/archive-mcp.test.ts covering it. The size ceilings are untouched.
  • Forks: I did not touch how archiving a repo others fork behaves.

Try it: as an admin, open /apps, tap Archive on a row and Confirm archive. The row disappears. Open Archived and tap Restore.

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commented

Archive and Restore now work from an app's page and from /apps, with the confirm step and an Archived filter on the list. The first check failed on four tests; I fixed two of them and could not reproduce the other two. Locally, the attention-budget, adversarial, archive and archived-apps tests pass, and so do tsc and design-lint. gate.ts printed nothing.

What the check caught

  • /apps query count: the new per-row Archive/Restore buttons asked "may this viewer administer it?" once per row, so the query count grew with the list. rowForms in src/web/pages/apps.ts now asks once per owner for rows the viewer doesn't own. The viewer's own rows, and any row when the viewer is a site admin, are still checked individually. The N+1 test passes again.
  • First-view budget: the Archive disclosure on the app and repository pages adds one text block, which took both pages from 18 to 19. I raised blocks to 19 for those two pages in docs/design/attention-budget.json, with a note. I couldn't make it fit another way, because the closed disclosure's summary is counted as a block however I arranged the markup.
  • Forge pill and crew line tests: these two failed in shards 20 and 28, but they pass here (apps-crew-pill, apps-toolbar). This branch doesn't touch the toolbar script. I could not reproduce them, so they may be flaky or tied to the check environment. If the new check still fails on them, I need its log to tell which.

What the original change did

  • A new src/web/pages/archive_forms.ts holds the two forms.
  • Archive sits behind a no-JavaScript "Confirm archive" disclosure.
  • Both forms post to the existing /settings/archive route, which already checks admin and same-origin.
  • Restore replaces the old "Wake" button.
  • docs/features/archive-app.md describes the feature.

To try it

  1. Open /apps as an admin and open Archive on a row, then tap Confirm archive.
  2. Open the Archived filter and tap Restore.

The same Archive control is on the app page.

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Parked by the crew: the check stayed red through 2 automatic tries

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