A store's `config.json` lived in a repository the desktop client fetched over HTTP,
which made a store's behaviour depend on a second thing existing and staying
reachable. The registry already answers what a store *is*; it now answers how it
behaves too, in the same shape that file had, so this record is the one source of
truth and a store can be configured from the admin alone.
`storeRepositoryUrl` stays, demoted to a pointer for a person — where the store's
own repository is, when it has one. Clients released before this field still fetch a
`config.json` from it, so nothing has to move at once.
The column is nullable because a store that configures nothing is still a store: the
client falls back to the engine's built-in defaults, which need only a name and a
catalog. The admin edits it as JSON text through a pair of accessors, so the column
holds real JSON and invalid input comes back with the text kept and a message rather
than a 500.
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The client only ever took identity from a store repository — a slug, a name, a catalog —
and the store engine's own defaults cover everything else: the host-to-asset mapping, the
install modes, the platforms, the behaviour. So `store_repository_url` is now optional:
nullable in the schema, no presence validation, the format check only when a value is
given, and the serializer answers null rather than an empty string, because the client
branches on its absence.
Adding a store is therefore a row with two fields filled in. Given a repository the
client still reads its config.json, and that file remains the authority on how the store
behaves — the admin form and the endpoint's documentation say so.
The frontend's /stores page gains a section of its own for the graphical client on the
desktop tab: what it does, that it sets the store up itself, that it is the way in on
Windows where `curl … | sh` does not exist, and links to the releases, the repository and
the documentation — now under stores/warp-engine-client, which is where that repository
lives after the rename.
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