A plugin with "scope": "global" keeps running across the dashboard
and files and can find and open the user's projects and files. Any
manifest could ask for this without the user being told.
Add the allow:global permission. The plugin registry adds it to
every manifest with global scope, so the install dialog lists it,
and a plugin that becomes global in a later version shows the
permissions update dialog again. The permission is valid in the
shared schema, which the backend checks when saving, and in the
runtime manifest schema. The built-in MCP plugin declares it too.
Document the scope property and the new permission for plugin
developers.
Global plugin lifecycle:
- Add optional manifest scope "global" for plugins that remain active
across dashboard and workspace navigation within one browser tab.
Existing plugins retain workspace scope by default.
- Preserve global sandboxes when a workspace ends or another plugin
loads, including when that other plugin fails to initialize.
- Avoid duplicate instances of an already-running global plugin.
- Close global plugins on explicit closure or logout, with idempotent
cleanup of listeners, timers and UI resources. Global scope does not
imply automatic startup or persistence across a browser reload.
Plugin API and navigation:
- Keep a permanently live penpot facade whose getters follow the current
workspace, while user, theme and UI facilities remain available on
the dashboard.
- Expose penpotMgmt to global plugins with workspace metadata,
none/loading/ready status and workspacechange subscriptions.
- Add awaitable openFile(fileId, {teamId}) navigation in the current tab,
defaulting to the current team and resolving only once the requested
file and its active page are ready.
- Reject invalid identifiers, failed or superseded navigation and waits
exceeding 30 seconds; release navigation watchers on completion.
- Guard workspace-bound operations while no workspace is ready and
return null from root, currentFile and currentPage in that state.
- Require content:read for the initial management API. Callers must
reacquire file, page and shape references after changing files.
MCP lifecycle and connection controls:
- Make MCP a global plugin and initialize its integrated controller per
authenticated application session instead of per workspace.
- Load the enabled integration with a valid token on the dashboard as
well as in a file, retaining its existing hidden-iframe implementation.
- Keep enabling and connecting separate: an enabled plugin starts idle,
and each tab connects explicitly through dashboard or workspace
controls.
- Preserve the iframe, WebSocket, heartbeat and reconnect machinery
during navigation; disconnect on request and close on disable/logout.
MCP sessions and execution:
- Derive the short MCP session ID solely from currentUser.sessionId,
excluding the file ID. Retain the SHA-256-based, 50-bit Base32 encoding
to produce a stable, copyable 10-character identifier.
- Allow sessions without an open file and update workspace metadata over
the existing connection without replacing its routing identity.
- Refresh context after the connection handshake so initialization does
not leave stale file metadata.
- Expose penpotMgmt to execute_code, preserve execution storage across
navigation and skip layout waits when no workspace is ready.
- Update API types, tool guidance, documentation and the changelog.
Validation:
- Cover authenticated startup, workspace survival, logout cleanup,
readiness, navigation failure, duplicate loads and session routing.
- Verify that short IDs remain stable across files and reconnects and
that disconnect cancels pending asynchronous ID initialization.
- Pass 16 focused frontend tests, 73 runtime tests, 30 MCP plugin tests,
builds, TypeScript checks and frontend/runtime lint.
- Pass all 73 MCP server tests with --test-force-exit; the normal runner
still stays alive after assertions finish.
- Verify a live dashboard-to-file-to-dashboard round trip without a
document or iframe reload, preserving facade identity and storage.
AI-assisted-by: gpt-6
* ✨ Add core changes for mcp server
* ✨ Changes to plugins-runtime to add mcp extensions
* ✨ Changes to MCP plugin
* ✨ Changes post-review and ci fixes
