The machine running ProdDash is a packaged app or the Windows bundle plus
modules from the admin page's catalog. It has no compiler, and the catalog
delivers exactly the folder that is in the repo — so a module's native
program (audio capture, a decoder) ships already built, inside the module
folder, one file per platform: bin/<name>-macos-arm64 and
bin/<name>-win-x64.exe are required, Intel macOS optional, source and the
script that rebuilds every binary under native/.
The guide's rule 3 now says so, "The shape of a module" shows the layout,
and a new "Native helpers" section gives the contract: pick the binary by
platform at runtime, report the feature off when there is none — never
build, never search the machine, never ask the operator to install
anything — one command-line contract in any language per platform, bump
the version when a binary changes, keep them lean, sign the macOS one.
CLAUDE.md carries the one-line version. Rules only: no module changes here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
