Add Selector

Dynamic selectors expose option metadata while a workflow or connector is being configured. Every remote selector executes through the authorized selectors.execute application operation; the browser never resolves credentials or calls a provider directly.

Read the shared boundary

Before editing, read:

• apps/sim/lib/selectors/types.ts
• apps/sim/lib/selectors/manifest.ts
• apps/sim/lib/selectors/context.ts
• apps/sim/lib/selectors/server/types.ts
• apps/sim/lib/selectors/server/registry.ts
• apps/sim/hooks/queries/selectors.ts

Then read the nearest existing selector attachment and the block, trigger, or connector declaration that will consume the key.

Classify the selector

• provider-server: contacts an external provider or uses provider credentials.
• internal-server: reads protected Sim data through an existing authorized application use case.
• local: pure browser-safe data with no protected data, credentials, references, or network I/O.

Add every key to the browser-safe manifest in lib/selectors/manifest.ts. SelectorKey derives from that manifest; do not maintain a second union. Manifest entries contain data only: allowed context, readiness, scope kinds, list/search/detail capabilities, and stale time. Do not import provider SDKs, credentials, server helpers, or attachment functions into the manifest.

Build context from active values

Declare dependsOn on the consuming sub-block or connector field. The shared context builder sends only declared, active dependencies:

• Canonical basic/advanced pairs contribute the active value under their canonical key.
• Action and trigger modes contribute only fields active on that surface.
• Exact environment references such as {{GMAIL_CREDENTIAL_ID}} remain unresolved in the browser.
• Runtime block-output references are not selector context.
• Embedded environment interpolation such as https://{{HOST}}/path is unsupported.
• impersonateUserEmail is the one explicit compatibility hint projected when the manifest allows it, even when it is absent from dependsOn.

Add a new SelectorContextKey only when the value is a real, reusable selector dependency. Allow it explicitly on each relevant manifest entry. Never send a full block or connector configuration.

Add the server attachment

For provider-server, add the service's attachment map under apps/sim/lib/selectors/server/providers/ and include it in the exhaustive server registry. For internal-server, add the attachment in apps/sim/lib/selectors/server/internal.ts. Local keys use the exhaustive browser-safe registry in apps/sim/lib/selectors/client/local.ts and never enter the server registry. A provider attachment declares:

• For stored credentials, a credential policy with the exact context field and trusted serviceIds. Raw-connection selectors instead validate the connection material projected from their allowed context and bind it to a deliberate destination policy.
• Destination policy: fixed, credential-bound, or user-controlled.
• A list/detail adapter that explicitly projects id, label, and allowlisted scalar meta.

Stored credentials must pass actor-use, workspace, and provider/service binding checks. Do not trust a provider, service, operation kind, origin, or module name supplied by the browser.

Choose the destination policy deliberately:

• fixed: provider origin is code-defined.
• credential-bound: origin/account/site comes from, or is verified against, the authorized credential.
• user-controlled: the user selects the destination. Hidden use-only authentication requires an explicit security policy; do not combine it with an arbitrary destination by default.

Reuse or extract a server-only provider listing primitive. If an existing provider route has non-selector callers, keep the route as a thin caller of that primitive. If it is selector-only, move the logic and remove the obsolete route and contract. Never import a route handler or make an internal HTTP request from an attachment.

The attachment must return normalized selector results only. It must never deliberately or wholesale echo selector context, and hidden/server-only resolved material, credential IDs, tokens, and authentication secrets must never cross the response boundary. Browser-known literals and viewable personal/shared values are not automatically server-only secrets, but they may appear in an option only when the adapter intentionally projects them as provider resource metadata. Let the shared executor own scope authorization, exact-reference resolution, credential authorization, error projection, and output sanitization; adapters must pass and preserve the executor's abort signal during provider work.

Wire the UI declaration

Point the block, trigger, or connector field at selectorKey and declare its dependsOn fields. Keep connector selector/manual canonical pairs and fork reconfiguration behavior intact. Static options stay local and need no selector.

Do not add:

• A module under hooks/selectors/providers or any client provider fetcher.
• A provider-specific React Query key.
• A selector-specific OAuth-token request.
• A selector-only API route when the provider primitive can be called directly.

All server selectors use the shared POST contract and React Query facade. Query identities must stay opaque and must not include context values, references, credential IDs, secrets, or their hashes. Selector code must not add context, token, or result caches. The sole existing cache exception is authorized client-credential resolution after authorization and provider binding: it may reuse the credential service's TTL-governed, lazily pruned process-local token cache. This exception requires explicit security-owner acceptance; do not broaden it or describe it as hard-bounded.

Focused validation

Follow nearby Vitest and route-test style. Do not add an authorization matrix for every ordinary provider attachment; the shared executor tests own shared security behavior.

Add a focused adapter test when behavior is special, such as pagination, nontrivial destination binding, provider-specific projection, or a raw-connection policy. For an ordinary fixed-origin OAuth list, manifest/registry exhaustiveness plus an existing provider primitive test is usually enough.

Run the smallest relevant set, then:

bun run --cwd apps/sim test <focused selector tests>
bun run --cwd apps/sim type-check
bun run check:fork-dependent-coverage
bun run check:client-boundary
git diff --check

Confirm there is no browser-side provider call, every server key has one attachment, and every returned option is explicitly projected.