com.paca.time-logging

First-party Paca plugin that lets project members log time spent on tasks. Each time-log entry is a manual record with a date, a duration (in minutes), and an optional note. Entries are attributed to a project member, and the plugin exposes a per-project summary of total time logged by member.

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Architecture

The plugin follows the standard three-part plugin structure:

time-logging/
├── backend/   — Go WASM plugin (runs inside the API host)
├── frontend/  — React micro-frontend (Module Federation remote)
└── mcp/       — MCP tool server (optional, for AI agent access)

Backend (backend/)

• Written in Go, compiled to wasip1/wasm for production.
• Registered as com.paca.time-logging in the plugin registry.
• Owns its database schema (plugin_data_com_paca_time_logging) and runs its own migration on startup.
• Listens on the task.deleted event to clean up any orphaned time logs (the task_time_logs.task_id foreign key also cascades on delete).

Frontend (frontend/)

• Vite + React + TanStack Query.
• Exposed as a Module Federation remote (com_paca_time_logging) with three entry points:
  • ./TimeLogsSection — rendered via the task.detail.section extension point. Lets a member add/view/delete time-log entries for the current task. The "log time" form and delete button both require viewer.can_write_tasks (tasks.write), mirroring the routes' own gate; delete is further limited by canManageTimeLog to the caller's own entries, or any entry with time_logging.manage_all.
  • ./ProjectTimeTrackingPage — rendered via the project.page extension point at its own routed page (/projects/:projectId/plugins/com.paca.time-logging/time-tracking), reached through a nav item this plugin registers in the project sidebar. Gated by the project-scoped time_logging.view_all custom permission — the nav item is hidden for members without it. Lists every time-log entry across every task in the project (date, member, task, note, duration), filterable by member and date range, with inline edit/delete.
  • ./AdminTimeTrackingPage — rendered via the admin.page extension point at its own routed page (/admin/plugins/com.paca.time-logging/time-tracking), reached through a nav item this plugin registers in the admin sidebar. Cross-project view: every time-log entry across every project in the instance, filterable by project, user, and date range. Gated by the plugin's own time_logging.view_all global custom permission, and deliberately read-only (see the doc comment on AdminTimeTrackingPageInner for why editing doesn't belong here).
• Communicates with the backend through the standard plugin API path:
  GET|POST|PATCH|DELETE /api/v1/plugins/com.paca.time-logging/projects/:projectId/tasks/:taskId/time-logs/… (project-scoped routes) and GET /api/v1/plugins/com.paca.time-logging/time-logs/… (global/admin-scoped routes, no :projectId).

Authorization

Logging, editing, and deleting time-log entries all require the built-in tasks.write permission — tracking time against a task is treated as a task-editing action, same as the task itself. On top of that, a caller may only edit or delete their own entries by default (PATCH/DELETE on /tasks/:taskId/time-logs/:logId return 403 otherwise). GET /time-logs/me (viewerInfo) returns both can_write_tasks and can_manage_all so every list view (task detail, project-wide) can decide whether to offer the "log time" form and edit/delete controls consistently, via the shared canManageTimeLog helper — but the backend re-checks both on every write, so it remains the actual authorization boundary.

The plugin declares four custom permissions (customPermissions in plugin.json) — note that both time_logging.manage_all and time_logging.view_all are declared twice, once per scope, since the same key name reads naturally in both role editors and the two scopes never share a permission map:

• time_logging.manage_all (scope project) — a project owner can grant this to a project role to let its holders edit/delete any project member's entries within that project, in addition to their own.
• time_logging.manage_all (scope global) — grants the same edit/delete-any-entry capability, but instance-wide across every project, not just one. It appears in the global role editor. Both variants are checked identically via the SDK's ctx.Permissions().Check(...), backed by the host's paca.permission_check function, which merges a caller's global and project permissions for project-scoped checks — so a global grant satisfies the check in every project without needing a matching per-project grant.
• time_logging.view_all (scope project) — required to reach the project's "Time Tracking" nav item/page and its /time-logs and /time-logs/summary endpoints (the project-wide, every-member view — not /time-logs/me, which stays open to any project member). It appears in the project role editor and is enforced entirely by the host's requirePermissions route middleware — no additional in-handler check. Migration note: before this permission existed, any project member with baseline projects.read could see this view; existing project roles will need it granted explicitly to keep that access after upgrading.
• time_logging.view_all (scope global) — required to reach the admin-sidebar "Time Tracking" page and its /time-logs/summary-all, /time-logs/all, and /time-logs/users-all endpoints. It appears in the global role editor and is enforced entirely by the host's requirePermissions route middleware (declared per-route in plugin.json) — there is no additional in-handler check for it, since those routes are otherwise fully public within the instance once granted.

MCP (mcp/)

• Exposes time_logging_list_time_logs, time_logging_log_time, time_logging_update_time_log, time_logging_delete_time_log, time_logging_project_summary, and time_logging_list_project_time_logs tools so AI agents can log and query time on behalf of a user.

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API Endpoints

Project-scoped

Prefixed with /projects/:projectId by the host. The caller must be an authenticated member of the project.

Method	Path	Description
GET	/tasks/:taskId/time-logs	List all time-log entries for a task (requires tasks.read)
POST	/tasks/:taskId/time-logs	Log time against a task (requires tasks.write)
PATCH	/tasks/:taskId/time-logs/:logId	Update a time-log entry (requires tasks.write, plus own entries or any entry with time_logging.manage_all)
DELETE	/tasks/:taskId/time-logs/:logId	Delete a time-log entry (same rule as PATCH)
GET	/time-logs	List every time-log entry across all tasks in the project (requires time_logging.view_all)
GET	/time-logs/summary	Total minutes logged per project member (requires time_logging.view_all)
GET	/time-logs/me	The caller's member_id and whether they hold time_logging.manage_all

Global/admin-scoped

No :projectId — gated by the plugin's own time_logging.view_all global custom permission.

Method	Path	Description
GET	/time-logs/summary-all	Total minutes logged per project, across every project
GET	/time-logs/all	Every time-log entry across every project, with project/member display names
GET	/time-logs/users-all	Total minutes logged per user, across every project

Request / Response examples

Log time — POST /tasks/:taskId/time-logs

{ "spent_date": "2026-07-13", "minutes_spent": 90, "note": "Worked on the API" }

{
  "data": {
    "id": "a1b2c3d4-…",
    "task_id": "…",
    "member_id": "…",
    "spent_date": "2026-07-13",
    "minutes_spent": 90,
    "note": "Worked on the API",
    "created_at": "2026-07-13T10:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-07-13T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

Update a time-log entry — PATCH /tasks/:taskId/time-logs/:logId

{ "minutes_spent": 120 }

Project summary — GET /time-logs/summary

{
  "data": [
    { "member_id": "member-1", "minutes_spent": 480 },
    { "member_id": "member-2", "minutes_spent": 120 }
  ]
}

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Database Schema

Tables live in the plugin_data_com_paca_time_logging schema and are created by backend/migrations/0001_create_task_time_logs.sql.

task_time_logs
  id             UUID PK
  task_id        UUID → public.tasks(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
  member_id      UUID → public.project_members(id)
  spent_date     DATE
  minutes_spent  INTEGER  (> 0)
  note           TEXT
  created_by     UUID → public.project_members(id)
  created_at     TIMESTAMPTZ
  updated_at     TIMESTAMPTZ

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Development

Backend

cd backend

# Run tests
go test -v ./...

# Lint
golangci-lint run --timeout=5m

# Build WASM binary (requires Go 1.24+)
GOOS=wasip1 GOARCH=wasm go build -buildmode=c-shared -o time-logging.wasm .

Frontend

cd frontend

# Install dependencies
bun install

# Typecheck
bun run typecheck

# Development build (watch)
bun run dev

# Production build (outputs remoteEntry.js)
bun run build

The frontend uses the @paca-ai/plugin-sdk-react package.
Shared singletons (react, react-dom, @tanstack/react-query) are provided by the host shell and must not be bundled.

MCP

cd mcp

bun install
bun run typecheck
bun run build

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Extension Points

task.detail.section — TimeLogsSection

Prop	Type	Description
projectId	string	Current project ID
taskId	string	Current task ID
canEdit	boolean	Whether the caller has write permission

project.page — ProjectTimeTrackingPage

Routed at /projects/:projectId/plugins/com.paca.time-logging/time-tracking via the project nav item declared in plugin.json.

Prop	Type	Description
projectId	string	Current project ID

admin.page — AdminTimeTrackingPage

Routed at /admin/plugins/com.paca.time-logging/time-tracking via the admin nav item declared in plugin.json. Takes no props beyond the shared BaseExtensionProps (api, ui, meta) — there is no projectId in this scope, so api.listTasks()/listMembers()/etc. must not be called here.