feat(plugins): package the Ulanzi Studio plugin as a release asset

[nigelfenton]

The gap

plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr/README.md tells users:

Download the packaged plugin from the latest AetherSDR release (when available).

That asset has never existed. streamdeck-plugins.yml packages the Elgato and StreamController plugins on a v* tag, but not the Ulanzi one, so "when available" has stayed hypothetical since the plugin landed in-tree.

Raised by @jensenpat while reviewing #5212, where the Windows OEM-variant advisory had nowhere first-party to send users and pointed at a personal repo instead. That link is now removed; this is the other half — giving it somewhere legitimate to point later.

The change

A third packaging step alongside the existing two, following the Elgato pattern exactly — cd into the plugin directory, zip the bundle folder as-is to the workspace root — plus the new zip on the same gh release upload.

- name: Package Ulanzi plugin
  run: |
    cd plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr
    zip -r ../../com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin.zip \
      com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin/

No install step, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. The bundle's only dependency (ws) is not vendored into node_modules — Ulanzi Studio resolves it at load time, which is how the standalone releases have shipped since v0.1.0. The zip is the bundle directory verbatim.

Also syncs package.json to 0.1.7 to match manifest.json in the same bundle. Only package.json was left at 0.1.0, so the packaged zip would have carried two disagreeing version numbers.

Verified

Built the zip from this tree and diffed it against the published v0.1.7 asset:

	files	result
Published v0.1.7 asset	72	—
Built from this tree	72	same set

The only difference is the vendored Ulanzi SDK's LICENSE vs LICENSE.txt filename — a discrepancy in the standalone repo, not something this step introduces.

Workflow YAML parses, and the new step lands between Package StreamController plugin and Attach to release. Relative paths match Elgato's (cd plugins/<dir> then ../../), so the zip lands in the workspace root where the upload step expects it. package.json still parses.

Not verified

The upload path itself. upload-plugins runs only on a v* tag push, so a PR cannot exercise it — the same limit that applies to the two existing packaging steps.

Note for a maintainer

The in-tree plugin is GPL-3.0-or-later; the standalone repo it currently ships from is Apache-2.0, under the same com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin id. Once the zip ships from this repo that inconsistency should be resolved rather than duplicated, and I'd rather a maintainer ruled on which licence the shipped artifact carries than pick one myself. Happy to follow up either way.

I have not touched release.yml or any build-time CI gate — this is a release-time packaging step in the workflow that already owns plugin packaging.

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[aethersdr-agent]

Issue fit

There is no fixes/closes #NNNN line to work from, so I reviewed against the PR's own stated intent: ship the Ulanzi bundle as a release asset the same way the Elgato and StreamController ones are shipped. The workflow wiring does that — the zip is produced in the repo root and added to the gh release upload list, matching the two existing steps. The one issue number that does appear ((#3485) in the new comment) is a Windows BLE "D100H shows Disconnected" bug report about AetherSDR's own Ulanzi dial mapping; it does not ask for a packaged plugin and does not support the ws-resolution claim the comment attaches it to. Per GOVERNANCE.md this is packaging, not architecture, so an RFC isn't needed — but the citation should point at something that actually says what the comment claims.

The blocker below is that the asset this produces looks like it won't load.

Scope

File / group	What it changes	Claimed by title/body?	Verdict
.github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml (package step)	New Package Ulanzi plugin zip step	Yes	In scope
.github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml (upload list)	Adds the zip to gh release upload	Yes	In scope
plugins/.../package.json version 0.1.0 → 0.1.7	Syncs package.json to the manifest.json Version already at 0.1.7 (set before this branch, 52a0f3dc's ancestry — this PR does not touch manifest.json)	Not stated in the diff/body	In scope in substance (a release asset should not ship a 0.1.0 package.json next to a 0.1.7 manifest), but undisclosed — worth one line in the body

No CHANGELOG.md entry (correct — it's a release-prep file). No deleted guards, no removed comments, no new public/protocol surface. Nothing else in the diff.

Blockers

1. The zip almost certainly ships a plugin that cannot load: ws is neither vendored nor installed. (inline on the comment block, workflow L51–55)

The comment asserts ws is "NOT vendored into node_modules — Studio resolves it at load time — so there is no install step here." Everything I can read in the tree contradicts that:

• plugin/app.js:13 — import WebSocket from 'ws';
• libs/common-node/libs/ulanziApi.js:1 — import WebSocket from "ws"; (so the vendored SDK needs it too, not just the plugin's own code)
• libs/common-node/README.md §"1. Install" — npm install ws, i.e. the SDK vendor's own instruction is to install it
• plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr/README.md §"Building from Source" — "npm install … That installs the ws WebSocket library used by plugin/app.js. The bundled Ulanzi SDK … is vendored — no separate fetch required." The README draws exactly the line the comment erases: SDK vendored, ws not.
• git ls-files plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr — 77 files, zero under node_modules. By contrast git ls-files plugins/elgato-aethersdr | grep node_modules returns 20 files: the Elgato bundle does commit node_modules/ws, which is why its "zip the directory as-is" step is safe. The comment's premise ("ships the same way as the Elgato one") is true of the zip command and false of the dependency situation, which is the part that matters.

I cannot run Ulanzi Studio, so I can't prove the load failure empirically — but the claim that Studio injects ws has no support anywhere in the bundle, its vendored SDK, or the plugin's own README, and three of those say the opposite. If it's true, it needs a citation (a Studio docs link), because it's load-bearing for the whole step.

Fix is one of:

• add npm ci --omit=dev in the bundle directory before the zip (see the inline suggestion; note it needs finding 2 fixed first), or
• commit node_modules/ws the way elgato-aethersdr does, and drop the install step.

Either way the comment should say which and stop asserting the runtime behaviour.

Nits (non-blocking)

• package-lock.json is stale at the root version. package.json moves to 0.1.7; package-lock.json still carries "version": "0.1.0" in both the top-level field and packages[""]. Harmless today because nothing installs, but it is the thing that would make an npm ci fix for the blocker fail, so the two go together.
• The new step is never exercised before a release. upload-plugins is gated on startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') — check runs on c5a5c8f1 show it skipped, while test-elgato ran green. So the first execution of this step is on a real tag, at which point a failure ships (or aborts the whole upload, taking the two working assets with it, since gh release upload gets all three in one invocation). Not a blocker on its own, but it is why the ws question above can't be settled by "CI is green."
• No test job for the Ulanzi plugin. test-elgato runs npm test in the Elgato bundle on every plugins/** PR; the Ulanzi package.json has no test script and no sibling job. A node --check plugin/app.js at minimum would have made the module-resolution question visible on PRs. Node-side plugin scripts are outside the AGENTS.md test-layer boundary (no CTest applies), so this is a CI-hygiene suggestion, not a canon requirement.
• CodeGuard's three CG-PATH-001 hits on this file (L42/48/59) are false positives: all three are cd + zip with literal repo-relative paths and no interpolated or user-controlled component. The MainWindow.cpp hits are on untouched code, not this PR. Dropping them.

What I tried to break

• The zip's landing path. cd plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr then ../../foo.zip resolves to the repo root, same as the Elgato step's ../../ and the StreamController step's ../ from plugins/ — all three artifacts land where the gh release upload step (which does not cd) expects them. Correct.
• Zip contents. From plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr, only com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin/ is zipped, so README.md, profiles/ and scripts/ are correctly left out; the bundle root name matches the directory Ulanzi Studio's install instructions name. The Elgato step's -x "*/test.js" has no analogue here — the Ulanzi bundle's only test.js is the vendored SDK's, which is inert. Not a finding.
• The removal side of the diff. Read the - lines: only the 0.1.0 version string and the trailing-line context. No guard, early return, or symptom-naming comment removed.
• Version consistency. manifest.json was already 0.1.7 before this branch, so the package.json bump is a sync toward the manifest, not a unilateral version claim. Checked git log -- .../manifest.json to confirm this PR isn't the one moving it.
• Sibling packaging steps. Grepped for other places the release assets are assembled — this workflow is the only one; no second packaging path left unfixed.
• Could not check: whether Ulanzi Studio actually provides ws to plugin processes at load (no Studio, no runtime here). That is the single claim that decides the blocker, and it is why I've asked for a citation rather than asserting the zip is broken. Every finding above is reasoned from the files in the head checkout, not reproduced at runtime.

Recommendation

Request changes — on the ws question only. The workflow plumbing is right and matches the two existing steps; the defect is that the Ulanzi bundle, unlike the Elgato one, has no runtime dependency in the tree and no install step in the job, so "zip as-is" produces a different kind of artifact than the comment says it does. Next step: either add npm ci --omit=dev (plus the lockfile version sync) or commit node_modules/ws as the Elgato bundle does — and if Studio really does resolve ws, replace the assertion in the comment with a link that says so. Thanks for keeping the packaging symmetrical with the other two plugins and for the least-privilege note on the test job; the rest of this reads cleanly.

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[aethersdr-agent]

Blocker — this comment's central claim is contradicted by the bundle it describes.

plugin/app.js:13 does import WebSocket from 'ws', and the vendored SDK's libs/common-node/libs/ulanziApi.js:1 does too. git ls-files plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr returns 77 files with nothing under node_modules, so zipping the directory as-is packages neither a vendored ws nor a way to fetch one.

The "same way as the Elgato one" comparison is where it goes wrong: plugins/elgato-aethersdr/com.aethersdr.radio.sdPlugin/node_modules/ws/** is committed (20 tracked files), which is exactly why its zip-as-is step is safe. Two READMEs in this bundle also say the opposite of the comment — the SDK's own libs/common-node/README.md §1 says npm install ws, and plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr/README.md distinguishes the vendored SDK ("no separate fetch required") from ws ("npm install … installs the ws WebSocket library used by plugin/app.js").

I can't run Studio to prove the load fails, so if it genuinely injects ws, please cite the Studio doc that says so — it's the claim the whole step rests on. Otherwise, the install:

Suggested change

	# The Ulanzi Studio plugin ships the same way as the Elgato one: the
	# bundle directory is zipped as-is. Its `ws` dependency is NOT vendored
	# into node_modules -- Studio resolves it at load time -- so there is no
	# install step here, and the packaged file set matches the bundle
	# exactly. (#3485)
	- name: Package Ulanzi plugin
	run: |
	cd plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr
	zip -r ../../com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin.zip \
	com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin/
	# The Ulanzi Studio plugin ships the same way as the Elgato one: the
	# bundle directory is zipped as-is. Unlike the Elgato bundle, its `ws`
	# dependency is NOT committed under node_modules, so it is installed
	# here before zipping -- both plugin/app.js and the vendored SDK
	# (libs/common-node/libs/ulanziApi.js) import it at load time.
	- name: Package Ulanzi plugin
	run: |
	cd plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr/com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin
	npm ci --omit=dev
	cd ..
	zip -r ../../com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin.zip \
	com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin/

npm ci needs the lockfile sync noted on package.json — its root "version" is still 0.1.0. Committing node_modules/ws the way the Elgato bundle does is an equally good fix; either one, but not neither.

[aethersdr-agent]

Worth knowing: all three assets go up in one gh release upload invocation, so if the Ulanzi zip is missing or the packaging step fails, the Elgato and StreamController assets don't get attached either. Combined with upload-plugins being tag-only (it shows skipped on this PR's checks), the first execution of the new step is on a real release tag. Not asking for a change here — just the reason the ws question above can't be deferred to "CI was green."

[aethersdr-agent]

Good — this syncs to the manifest.json Version (already 0.1.7; this PR doesn't touch it). Two small things:

1. package-lock.json was not bumped with it: it still has "version": "0.1.0" at the root and in packages[""]. That mismatch is what would make an npm ci in the workflow fail, so it needs fixing alongside the blocker.
2. A version bump on a release artifact is worth one line in the PR body — right now the diff is the only place it's stated.

[aethersdr-agent]

Cisco CodeGuard — static analysis of this PR (8 finding(s))

• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in .github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/.github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml:42
• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in .github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/.github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml:48
• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in .github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/.github/workflows/streamdeck-plugins.yml:59
• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in src/gui/MainWindow.cpp /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/src/gui/MainWindow.cpp:8962
• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in src/gui/MainWindow.cpp /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/src/gui/MainWindow.cpp:9074
• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in src/gui/MainWindow.cpp /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/src/gui/MainWindow.cpp:9193
• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in src/gui/MainWindow.cpp /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/src/gui/MainWindow.cpp:9194
• [MEDIUM] CG-PATH-001 — Potential path traversal in src/gui/MainWindow.cpp /tmp/aetherclaude/pr-5437/src/gui/MainWindow.cpp:9195

_{Automated static scan by Cisco DefenseClaw CodeGuard on the changed files. Advisory — some may be false positives; the review above verifies them.}

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[rfoust]

The workflow addresses the missing first-party release asset discussed in #5212. No closing issue is linked; this is packaging, not a fix for #3485's native-HID behavior. The archive and upload paths are correct, but the claim that Studio supplies the omitted runtime dependency remains unverified.

Scope

File/group	Claimed by title/body?	Verdict
streamdeck-plugins.yml packaging and upload	Yes	In scope; dependency concern below
Ulanzi package.json version synchronization	Yes	In scope

No unrelated changes, UI preferences, removed guards, or new protocol surface. The disclosed GPL/Apache discrepancy warrants Jeremy's decision; the workflow already requires maintainer review.

Blocker

1. P2: Establish runtime dependency availability before shipping. See the inline comment on the packaging step. The produced ZIP omits ws; socket-free Node module resolution fails with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND, then succeeds after installing the locked dependency. This confirms that the archive is not self-contained, not that Studio itself fails: Studio loading was not exercised. Install the locked dependency before zipping, or provide clean-install Studio evidence for this exact artifact and document the supported runtime contract.

Non-blocking nits

• The published-v0.1.7 comparison is overstated. I downloaded that asset and compared it with both the PR sources and the archive built from the synthesized merge. Both ZIPs contain 72 files, but differences extend beyond SDK LICENSE filenames: package.json, package-lock.json, and plugin/app.js differ. The JavaScript includes different AF-volume stepping logic. Please correct the verification claim; identical counts are not identical content.
• Synchronize the lockfile version, as noted inline. Contrary to the existing bot review, the root-version mismatch does not make npm ci fail: it succeeded with the unchanged lockfile.

Verification and attacks that held

• Reviewed head c5a5c8f. Built the archive from merge tree 4307f662e485c685a3a74f072b21727cc7022a45 against main d1b26a4. Before posting, main advanced to f0ed969: no intervening changes to this workflow or the Ulanzi subtree; refreshed merge tree 39b89ef4d2f581498ccf7a2dee25a8b40347b0e5 is clean. Head is unchanged.
• Executed the zip command successfully; checked its output location, bundle root, file inventory, dependency availability, and published-asset content differences.
• Socket-free import.meta.resolve('ws'): ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND before installation, successful resolution afterward. npm ci --ignore-scripts --omit=dev succeeded, and node --check plugin/app.js passed. Syntax checking alone does not validate imports.
• No added/modified tests or socket behavior in this diff. No app, Studio, or live-radio session was launched, and no release upload was attempted. The AetherSDR demo cannot establish Studio's module-loading behavior.
• Listed CI checks passed; upload-plugins was skipped. The available merge ref was stale. Three existing review threads were unresolved at refresh.
• Checked literal packaging paths and the removal side: no path-traversal input or removed safety guard introduced. Existing CodeGuard path warnings do not identify a vulnerability in these added literal paths. No separate automated review pass was available; existing bot findings were independently checked.

Recommendation: Request changes until dependency packaging is corrected or exact-artifact Studio proof establishes the claimed runtime behavior. Correct the comparison claim and obtain maintainer review before release.

[rfoust]

P2 — Bundle ws, or demonstrate the supported Studio resolution contract. This step ships no node_modules even though plugin/app.js and the vendored SDK import ws. In the extracted bundle, socket-free import.meta.resolve('ws') returned ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND; after npm ci --ignore-scripts --omit=dev, the same check resolved successfully. Ulanzi's official SDK instructions also specify installing it: https://github.com/UlanziTechnology/plugin-common-node/blob/main/README.md

I did not run Studio, so this is not a reproduced Studio failure. Please either install the locked dependency before packaging, or provide clean-install Studio evidence showing this exact ZIP works without it. A prior ZIP with the same file count is insufficient, especially since its JavaScript content differs.

A concrete packaging correction is:

Suggested change

	cd plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr
	zip -r ../../com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin.zip \
	com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin/
	cd plugins/ulanzi-aethersdr/com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin
	npm ci --ignore-scripts --omit=dev
	cd ..
	zip -r ../../com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin.zip \
	com.g0jkn.aethersdr.ulanziPlugin/

This suggestion replaces lines 58–60; also update the preceding comment to describe installation rather than runtime injection.

[rfoust]

Non-blocking: also synchronize package-lock.json's top-level version and packages[""].version, which remain 0.1.0. The manifest is already 0.1.7, so this package bump is in scope.

Correction to the existing review: I ran npm ci --ignore-scripts --omit=dev successfully with this unchanged lockfile. The root-version mismatch is metadata drift, not an npm-ci failure.