A store record is a name and a catalog

Both extras go. `config` was added this morning on the idea that the registry should
say how each store behaves; that was wrong. The configuration is fixed per installed
client — the client carries its own store engine and knows its own machine — so a copy
here was a second authority over decisions the client had already made correctly,
including which directories it may delete from. Keeping two stores on one machine apart
is a subfolder, and the client derives that itself.

`store_repository_url` goes with it. The store engines it pointed at no longer exist, and
a URL nobody follows is a URL that goes stale.

The public stores page loses its desktop card for the same reason: it advertised a
`curl … | sh` for a repository that is gone, and an ordinary computer is served by the
app in the section above it. `/desktop` now lands on that app rather than on a device
tab, so the old URL still means what someone typing it wants.

Unrelated but in the way: the dead `engines` list in that page has been failing
`vue-tsc` on master, so the frontend could not be built to check any of this. Removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

apps/api/db/migrate/20260819120000_a_store_is_a_name_and_a_catalog.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+class AStoreIsANameAndACatalog < ActiveRecord::Migration[8.1]
+  # Both extras go. A store record is a name and a catalog, and nothing else.
+  #
+  # `config` was added earlier today on the idea that the registry should say how each
+  # store behaves. It should not: the configuration is fixed per installed client — the
+  # client carries it and knows its own machine — so a copy on the server was a second
+  # authority over decisions the client had already made correctly, including where it
+  # may delete. Keeping two stores on one machine apart is a subfolder, which the client
+  # derives itself.
+  #
+  # `store_repository_url` goes for the same reason it stopped being read: the store
+  # engines it pointed at do not exist any more, and a URL nobody follows is a URL that
+  # goes stale.
+  def change
+    remove_column :stores, :config, :json
+    remove_column :stores, :store_repository_url, :string
+  end
+end

apps/api/db/schema.rb

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema[8.1].define(version: 2026_08_19_000001) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema[8.1].define(version: 2026_08_19_120000) do
   create_table "admin_users", charset: "utf8mb4", collation: "utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.datetime "created_at", null: false
     t.datetime "deleted_at", precision: 3
@@ -283,11 +283,9 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema[8.1].define(version: 2026_08_19_000001) do
 
   create_table "stores", id: { type: :bigint, unsigned: true }, charset: "utf8mb4", collation: "utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.string "catalog_url", null: false
-    t.json "config"
     t.datetime "created_at", precision: 3, null: false
     t.datetime "deleted_at", precision: 3
     t.string "name", null: false
-    t.string "store_repository_url"
     t.datetime "updated_at", precision: 3, null: false
     t.index ["deleted_at"], name: "idx_stores_deleted_at"
     t.index ["name"], name: "idx_stores_name"

apps/api/db/seeds.rb

@@ -20,9 +20,5 @@ end
 # first record; anyone running this site would add their own the same way, from
 # the admin panel or here.
 Store.find_or_create_by!(name: "Teletype Games") do |store|
-  store.catalog_url          = ENV.fetch("STORE_CATALOG_URL", "https://teletypegames.org")
-  store.store_repository_url = ENV.fetch(
-    "STORE_REPOSITORY_URL",
-    "https://git.teletypegames.org/stores/ttg-desktop-store"
-  )
+  store.catalog_url = ENV.fetch("STORE_CATALOG_URL", "https://teletypegames.org")
 end