Ask a registry which store to install

The client had our store's config URL compiled into it, which meant a second store
— or anybody else's site — needed a release of this app. It now asks
`GET /api/stores` and installs what the site offers: one record and there is
nothing to decide, several and the setup screen shows a picker.

From a record the client works the rest out. `storeRepositoryUrl` gives the
`config.json` to read, and that file stays the authority on how the store behaves;
`catalogUrl` and `name` override its `store.base_url` and `store.name`, because the
registry is what says which catalog a store is *for*. The store id — which names
the store home and the folder games land in — comes from the repository name, so
`ttg-desktop-store` becomes `ttg`.

A repository with no `config.json` still installs: the engine merges whatever it
is handed onto its own defaults, so the client writes a three-field config and the
store behaves like the default one pointed at that catalog. That was worth having
rather than an error, and it is tested.

The registry address is now the single thing about a particular site left in the
client, and `STORES_API` overrides it — which is how this was tested, against a
local endpoint serving the same payload the site returns, with one store that has a
config and one that has not. Both installed; the engine listed all ten titles with
the synthesised config.

`npm run uitest` now passes on either outcome — the grid when a store is present,
the setup gate with a populated picker when there is none — and it reports both, so
the gate cannot silently regress into an empty screen. Run with the registry
unreachable it produces the retry gate, and fails, which is the honest verdict: a
client that cannot reach the registry cannot set anything up.

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

README.md

@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ It is also **the Windows install path**. The store's own installer is
 `curl … | sh`, which Windows does not have; this app downloads the store engine
 itself, into the same folder the shell installer would use.
 
+Which store it installs is not baked in: the client asks a registry — `GET
+/api/stores` on the site — and each record says what the store is called, which
+catalog it serves and where its configuration lives.
+
 ## What it needs
 
 - **Python 3** on the machine, because the store is a Python program. The app
@@ -49,6 +53,46 @@ so there was no resource seal and Gatekeeper refused it outright rather than
 asking. `scripts/after-pack.js` signs the bundle during the build now, and the
 result verifies as `valid on disk`.
 
+## Which store it installs
+
+On first run the client fetches the registry and offers what it finds. One store
+and there is nothing to decide; several and the setup screen shows a picker.
+
+```json
+[
+  {
+    "name": "Teletype Games",
+    "catalogUrl": "https://teletypegames.org",
+    "storeRepositoryUrl": "https://git.teletypegames.org/stores/ttg-desktop-store"
+  }
+]
+```
+
+From a record the client works out the rest:
+
+- **`storeRepositoryUrl`** → the store's `config.json`, read from
+  `…/raw/branch/master/config.json`. That file is the authority on how the store
+  behaves: which platforms, which statuses, where things land.
+- **`catalogUrl` and `name`** override the config's own `store.base_url` and
+  `store.name`. The registry says which catalog this store is *for*, so it wins.
+- **the store id** — which names the store home and the folder games land in —
+  comes from the repository name: `ttg-desktop-store` becomes `ttg`. A
+  `config.json` that sets its own id keeps it.
+
+A repository **without** a `config.json` still works. The engine merges whatever
+it is handed onto its own defaults, so the client writes a three-field config and
+the store behaves like the default one pointed at that catalog.
+
+The registry address is the single thing about a particular site left in the
+client, and `STORES_API` overrides it:
+
+```sh
+STORES_API=http://127.0.0.1:8731/stores npm start
+```
+
+Adding a store is therefore a database row on the site — see its ActiveAdmin
+panel — and not a release of this app.
+
 ## Use
 
 - **Install all** fetches everything the catalog offers for this machine.
@@ -131,7 +175,7 @@ SMOKE_HOME=/tmp/sandbox-root/ttg-desktop npm run smoke
 | `main.js` | the window, the IPC, and the one-call-at-a-time guard |
 | `preload.js` | the entire surface the renderer gets — no Node reaches it |
 | `lib/store.js` | finds the store and Python, runs the CLI, parses its JSON |
-| `lib/bootstrap.js` | downloads the engine, the shared core and a config |
+| `lib/bootstrap.js` | reads the registry, then downloads the engine, the core and a config |
 | `lib/i18n.js` | the two string tables |
 | `renderer/` | plain HTML, CSS and JS — no framework, no build step |
 | `Makefile` | the named sequences; no logic of its own beyond the release |
@@ -159,6 +203,13 @@ renders the installed state, and `npm run uitest` passes with the grid rendered
 and both languages in the picker. The bootstrap download was run into an empty
 directory and the resulting store answered the bridge.
 
+The registry path was exercised against a local endpoint serving the same payload
+the site returns, with two records: one store whose repository has a `config.json`
+and one without. Both installed, and the engine listed all ten titles with the
+synthesised config. `npm run uitest` was run twice — with a store present it shows
+the grid, with none it shows the setup gate and its picker carries both names —
+and once more with the registry unreachable, which produces the retry gate.
+
 The signing was measured rather than assumed, by setting the quarantine flag on a
 copy unzipped from the release artifact: `codesign --verify --deep --strict` is
 clean, and `syspolicy_check` reports only the expected *"adhoc signed"* warning.

lib/bootstrap.js

@@ -1,36 +1,50 @@
 'use strict'
-// Setting up the store when there is none yet.
+// Setting up a store when there is none yet.
 //
 // This is the reason the client exists on Windows at all: the shell installer is
 // `curl … | sh`, which Windows does not have. The three files it would place are
 // downloaded here instead, into the very same store home — so the CLI and the
 // client stay one installation, and running install.sh afterwards only adds the
 // launcher script.
+//
+// Which store, though, is not baked in. The client asks a registry — `GET
+// /api/stores` on the site — and each record says what the store is called, which
+// catalog it serves and where its configuration lives. A different site, or a
+// second store on ours, needs no change here. The registry address is the one
+// address the client does know, and even that is overridable.
 
 const fs = require('node:fs')
 const https = require('node:https')
+const http = require('node:http')
 const path = require('node:path')
 
-const FORGE = 'https://git.teletypegames.org'
-const SOURCES = {
-  engine: `${FORGE}/stores/warp-engine-desktop-store/raw/branch/master/desktop_store.py`,
-  core: `${FORGE}/engines/warpstore/raw/branch/master/warpstore.py`,
-  config: `${FORGE}/stores/ttg-desktop-store/raw/branch/master/config.json`
+// Where the engine itself comes from. Not part of the registry: this is the
+// client's own machinery, the same for every store it can drive.
+const FORGE = process.env.FORGE_BASE || 'https://git.teletypegames.org'
+const ENGINE_SOURCES = {
+  'desktop_store.py': `${FORGE}/stores/warp-engine-desktop-store/raw/branch/master/desktop_store.py`,
+  'warpstore.py': `${FORGE}/engines/warpstore/raw/branch/master/warpstore.py`
 }
 
+// The registry. One address, and the only thing about a particular site left in
+// the client.
+const REGISTRY_URL = process.env.STORES_API || 'https://teletypegames.org/api/stores'
+
 /** GET a URL as a string, following redirects — a moved repo answers 301. */
 function fetchText (url, redirects = 5) {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const request = https.get(url, { headers: { 'User-Agent': 'warp-engine-desktop-gui' } }, (res) => {
+    const client = url.startsWith('http://') ? http : https
+    const request = client.get(url, { headers: { 'User-Agent': 'warp-engine-desktop-gui' } }, (res) => {
       if (res.statusCode >= 300 && res.statusCode < 400 && res.headers.location) {
         res.resume()
         if (redirects <= 0) return reject(new Error(`too many redirects for ${url}`))
-        const next = new URL(res.headers.location, url).toString()
-        return fetchText(next, redirects - 1).then(resolve, reject)
+        return fetchText(new URL(res.headers.location, url).toString(), redirects - 1).then(resolve, reject)
       }
       if (res.statusCode !== 200) {
         res.resume()
-        return reject(new Error(`${url} answered ${res.statusCode}`))
+        const error = new Error(`${url} answered ${res.statusCode}`)
+        error.statusCode = res.statusCode
+        return reject(error)
       }
       let body = ''
       res.setEncoding('utf8')
@@ -43,40 +57,103 @@ function fetchText (url, redirects = 5) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Download the engine, the shared core and the store's config into `home`.
+ * The stores this client can install, from the site's registry.
+ *
+ * Each record carries a name, the catalog it serves and the repository holding
+ * its config. Anything without those three is dropped rather than half-used.
+ */
+async function registry (url = REGISTRY_URL) {
+  const body = await fetchText(url)
+  const rows = JSON.parse(body)
+  if (!Array.isArray(rows)) throw new Error(`${url} did not answer with a list of stores`)
+  return rows
+    .map((row) => ({
+      name: String(row.name || '').trim(),
+      catalogUrl: String(row.catalogUrl || row.catalog_url || '').trim(),
+      storeRepositoryUrl: String(row.storeRepositoryUrl || row.store_repository_url || '').trim()
+    }))
+    .filter((row) => row.name && row.catalogUrl && row.storeRepositoryUrl)
+}
+
+/** `…/stores/ttg-desktop-store` -> the raw config.json on its default branch. */
+function configUrl (repositoryUrl, branch = 'master') {
+  return `${repositoryUrl.replace(/\/+$/, '')}/raw/branch/${branch}/config.json`
+}
+
+/**
+ * A store id from its repository name: `ttg-desktop-store` -> `ttg`.
+ *
+ * The id names the store home and the folder the games land in, so it has to be
+ * short and filesystem-safe. The repository name is the best source we have; the
+ * store's own config.json overrides it whenever it exists.
+ */
+function storeId (store) {
+  const last = store.storeRepositoryUrl.replace(/\/+$/, '').split('/').pop() || ''
+  const base = last.replace(/-(desktop-)?store$/, '') || store.name
+  return base.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9._-]+/g, '-').replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '') || 'store'
+}
+
+/**
+ * The store's configuration.
+ *
+ * Its repository is the authority on how the store behaves — which platforms,
+ * which statuses, where things land. A repository without a config.json still
+ * works: the engine merges whatever it is given onto its own defaults, so a
+ * three-field config is a complete one.
+ */
+async function storeConfig (store, { onLog = () => {} } = {}) {
+  const id = storeId(store)
+  let config = null
+  try {
+    onLog(`reading the store config from ${store.storeRepositoryUrl}`)
+    config = JSON.parse(await fetchText(configUrl(store.storeRepositoryUrl)))
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err.statusCode !== 404) throw err
+    onLog('no config.json in the store repository — using the engine defaults')
+    config = { paths: { subfolder: id }, catalog: { statuses: ['released', 'archived', 'demo'] } }
+  }
+  // The registry is the authority on identity and on which catalog to read, so
+  // those two win over whatever the file says.
+  config.store = { ...(config.store || {}) }
+  config.store.id = config.store.id || id
+  config.store.name = store.name
+  config.store.base_url = store.catalogUrl
+  return config
+}
+
+/** Where this store's home goes. */
+function homeFor (store, root) {
+  return path.join(root, `${storeId(store)}-desktop`)
+}
+
+/**
+ * Install the engine, the shared core and the store's config into `home`.
  *
  * `onLog` reports each step, because on a slow line this takes a few seconds and
- * silence looks like a hang. An existing config is left alone: a store that is
- * already set up keeps its settings.
+ * silence looks like a hang.
  */
-async function install (home, { onLog = () => {} } = {}) {
+async function install (home, store, { onLog = () => {} } = {}) {
+  if (!store) throw new Error('no store was chosen')
   fs.mkdirSync(home, { recursive: true })
-  const wrote = []
 
-  for (const [name, file] of [['engine', 'desktop_store.py'], ['core', 'warpstore.py']]) {
+  for (const [file, url] of Object.entries(ENGINE_SOURCES)) {
     onLog(`downloading ${file}`)
-    const body = await fetchText(SOURCES[name])
+    const body = await fetchText(url)
     if (!body.startsWith('#!/usr/bin/env python3')) {
       throw new Error(`${file} does not look like the store engine — refusing to install it`)
     }
-    const dest = path.join(home, file)
-    fs.writeFileSync(dest, body, { mode: 0o755 })
-    wrote.push(dest)
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(home, file), body, { mode: 0o755 })
   }
 
-  const config = path.join(home, 'config.json')
-  if (fs.existsSync(config)) {
-    onLog('keeping the config already in place')
-  } else {
-    onLog('downloading config.json')
-    const body = await fetchText(SOURCES.config)
-    JSON.parse(body) // a broken config would fail later and less clearly
-    fs.writeFileSync(config, body)
-    wrote.push(config)
-  }
+  const configPath = path.join(home, 'config.json')
+  const config = await storeConfig(store, { onLog })
+  fs.writeFileSync(configPath, `${JSON.stringify(config, null, 2)}\n`)
 
-  onLog(`the store is set up in ${home}`)
-  return { home, config, script: path.join(home, 'desktop_store.py'), wrote }
+  onLog(`${store.name} is set up in ${home}`)
+  return { home, config: configPath, script: path.join(home, 'desktop_store.py'), id: config.store.id }
 }
 
-module.exports = { FORGE, SOURCES, fetchText, install }
+module.exports = {
+  ENGINE_SOURCES, FORGE, REGISTRY_URL,
+  configUrl, fetchText, homeFor, install, registry, storeConfig, storeId
+}

lib/i18n.js

@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ const STRINGS = {
     updateAvailable: 'update available',
     log: 'Log',
     noGames: 'No installable titles in the catalog.',
-    setupTitle: 'Set up the store',
-    setupBody: 'The store engine is not on this machine yet. It can be downloaded now — the same files the shell installer would place, in the same folder.',
+    setupTitle: 'Set up a store',
+    setupBody: 'No store on this machine yet. Pick one and it will be downloaded — the same files the shell installer would place, in the same folder.',
     setupAction: 'Download the store',
     setupWorking: 'Setting up…',
+    setupChoose: 'Store',
+    registryFailed: 'The list of stores could not be fetched',
+    registryEmpty: 'The list of stores came back empty. Nothing to install from yet.',
+    registryRetry: 'Try again',
     oldEngineTitle: 'The store needs refreshing',
     oldEngineBody: 'The store engine on this machine is older than this client can drive. Refreshing it downloads the current engine and keeps your settings and installed games.',
     oldEngineAction: 'Refresh the store',
@@ -59,10 +63,14 @@ const STRINGS = {
     updateAvailable: 'frissítés elérhető',
     log: 'Napló',
     noGames: 'Nincs telepíthető cím a katalógusban.',
-    setupTitle: 'A store beállítása',
-    setupBody: 'A store motorja még nincs ezen a gépen. Most letölthető — ugyanazok a fájlok, ugyanabba a könyvtárba, ahová a shell-telepítő tenné.',
+    setupTitle: 'Store beállítása',
+    setupBody: 'Ezen a gépen még nincs store. Válassz egyet, és letöltöm — ugyanazokat a fájlokat, ugyanabba a könyvtárba, ahová a shell-telepítő tenné.',
     setupAction: 'Store letöltése',
     setupWorking: 'Beállítás…',
+    setupChoose: 'Store',
+    registryFailed: 'A store-ok listája nem érhető el',
+    registryEmpty: 'A store-ok listája üresen jött vissza. Egyelőre nincs miből telepíteni.',
+    registryRetry: 'Újra',
     oldEngineTitle: 'A store frissítésre vár',
     oldEngineBody: 'A gépen lévő store-motor régebbi, mint amit ez a kliens vezérelni tud. A frissítés letölti a mostani motort, a beállításaid és a telepített játékok pedig megmaradnak.',
     oldEngineAction: 'Store frissítése',

main.js

@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ async function selftest () {
     buttons: document.querySelectorAll('.card .actions button').length,
     gateVisible: !document.getElementById('gate').hidden,
     gateTitle: document.getElementById('gate-title').textContent,
+    gateChoices: [...document.getElementById('gate-select').options].map((o) => o.text),
+    gateAction: document.getElementById('gate-action').textContent,
     appName: document.getElementById('app-name').textContent,
     storeId: document.getElementById('store-id').textContent,
     paths: document.getElementById('log-paths').textContent.slice(0, 120),
@@ -81,7 +83,11 @@ async function selftest () {
     locales: [...document.getElementById('locale').options].map((o) => o.value)
   }))()`)
   console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2))
-  const good = result.cards > 0 && !result.gateVisible && result.locales.length > 1
+  // Either outcome is a pass: a grid when a store is installed, or the setup gate
+  // with something to choose from when there is none.
+  const good = result.locales.length > 1 && (
+    (result.cards > 0 && !result.gateVisible) ||
+    (result.gateVisible && result.gateChoices.length > 0 && result.gateAction))
   console.log(good ? 'SELFTEST OK' : 'SELFTEST FAILED')
   app.exit(good ? 0 : 1)
 }
@@ -151,7 +157,8 @@ ipcMain.handle('app:state', () => {
     store: current ? { id: current.id, home: current.home } : null,
     engine: engine ? { text: engine.text, ok: engine.ok } : null,
     minEngine: store.MIN_ENGINE.join('.'),
-    defaultHome: store.defaultHome(),
+    registryUrl: bootstrap.REGISTRY_URL,
+    storeRoot: store.storeRoots()[0],
     version: app.getVersion()
   }
 })
@@ -172,11 +179,23 @@ ipcMain.handle('store:sync', (_event, names) =>
 ipcMain.handle('store:remove', (_event, name) =>
   guarded(() => store.remove(current, String(name), hooks())))
 
-ipcMain.handle('store:bootstrap', () => guarded(async () => {
-  const home = store.defaultHome()
-  const result = await bootstrap.install(home, { onLog: (line) => send('store:log', line) })
-  current = { engine: 'desktop', id: path.basename(home).replace(/-desktop$/, ''), ...result }
-  return { id: current.id, home: current.home }
+// The stores this client can install, from the site's registry rather than from
+// anything baked in here. A separate call because it needs the network: the first
+// window paints without waiting for it.
+ipcMain.handle('store:registry', async () => {
+  try {
+    return { stores: await bootstrap.registry() }
+  } catch (err) {
+    return { stores: [], error: err.message, url: bootstrap.REGISTRY_URL }
+  }
+})
+
+ipcMain.handle('store:bootstrap', (_event, chosen) => guarded(async () => {
+  if (!chosen) throw new Error('no store was chosen')
+  const home = bootstrap.homeFor(chosen, store.storeRoots()[0])
+  const result = await bootstrap.install(home, chosen, { onLog: (line) => send('store:log', line) })
+  current = { engine: 'desktop', ...result }
+  return { id: current.id, home: current.home, name: chosen.name }
 }))
 
 /**

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "warp-engine-desktop-gui",
   "productName": "WarpEngine Store",
-  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
   "description": "Graphical client for a WarpEngine desktop store: install the catalog into your own application menu.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "author": "Teletype Games <games@teletype.hu>",

preload.js

@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld('storeApi', {
   paths: () => ipcRenderer.invoke('store:paths'),
   sync: (names) => ipcRenderer.invoke('store:sync', names),
   remove: (name) => ipcRenderer.invoke('store:remove', name),
-  bootstrap: () => ipcRenderer.invoke('store:bootstrap'),
+  registry: () => ipcRenderer.invoke('store:registry'),
+  bootstrap: (store) => ipcRenderer.invoke('store:bootstrap', store),
   launch: (game) => ipcRenderer.invoke('store:launch', game),
 
   openFolder: (dir) => ipcRenderer.invoke('app:openFolder', dir),

renderer/app.js

@@ -203,18 +203,34 @@ async function runRemove (name) {
 
 // --- gate: no python, or no store yet -------------------------------------
 
-function showGate (title, body, action, link) {
+function showGate (title, body, action, link, choices) {
   el('grid').hidden = true
   el('empty').hidden = true
   const gate = el('gate')
   gate.hidden = false
   text(el('gate-title'), title)
   text(el('gate-body'), body)
+
+  // Only shown when the registry offers more than one store; with a single one
+  // there is nothing to decide.
+  const choice = el('gate-choice')
+  const select = el('gate-select')
+  choice.hidden = !choices || choices.length < 2
+  if (!choice.hidden) {
+    text(el('gate-choice-label'), T.setupChoose)
+    select.replaceChildren(...choices.map((store, index) => {
+      const option = document.createElement('option')
+      option.value = String(index)
+      option.textContent = store.name
+      return option
+    }))
+  }
+
   const button = el('gate-action')
   button.hidden = !action
   if (action) {
     text(button, action.label)
-    button.onclick = action.onClick
+    button.onclick = () => action.onClick(choices ? choices[Number(select.value) || 0] : undefined)
   }
   const anchor = el('gate-link')
   anchor.hidden = !link
@@ -263,10 +279,10 @@ async function boot () {
     return
   }
 
-  const setUpStore = async () => {
+  const setUpStore = async (chosen) => {
     showProgress(T.setupWorking)
     try {
-      await api.bootstrap()
+      await api.bootstrap(chosen)
       hideGate()
       await refresh()
     } catch (err) {
@@ -274,16 +290,35 @@ async function boot () {
     }
   }
 
+  // Which stores exist is the site's answer, not this client's: the registry is
+  // asked for it, and its records carry the catalog and the config repository.
+  const offerStores = async () => {
+    const result = await api.registry()
+    if (result.error) {
+      showGate(`${T.registryFailed}`, `${result.url}\n\n${result.error}`,
+        { label: T.registryRetry, onClick: offerStores })
+      return
+    }
+    if (!result.stores.length) {
+      showGate(T.setupTitle, `${T.registryEmpty}\n\n${result.url}`, null)
+      return
+    }
+    showGate(T.setupTitle,
+      `${T.setupBody}\n\n${state.storeRoot}`,
+      { label: T.setupAction, onClick: async (chosen) => { await setUpStore(chosen); await runSync([]) } },
+      null,
+      result.stores)
+  }
+
   if (!state.store) {
-    showGate(T.setupTitle, `${T.setupBody}\n\n${state.defaultHome}`,
-      { label: T.setupAction, onClick: async () => { await setUpStore(); await runSync([]) } })
+    await offerStores()
     return
   }
 
   if (state.engine && !state.engine.ok) {
     showGate(T.oldEngineTitle,
       `${T.oldEngineBody}\n\n${state.engine.text} → ${state.minEngine}`,
-      { label: T.oldEngineAction, onClick: setUpStore })
+      { label: T.oldEngineAction, onClick: offerStores })
     return
   }
 

renderer/index.html

@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
     <h1 id="gate-title"></h1>
     <p id="gate-body"></p>
     <div class="gate-actions">
+      <label id="gate-choice" class="gate-choice" hidden>
+        <span id="gate-choice-label"></span>
+        <select id="gate-select" class="select"></select>
+      </label>
       <button id="gate-action" class="btn btn-primary" hidden></button>
       <a id="gate-link" class="link" href="#" hidden></a>
     </div>

renderer/style.css

@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ body {
 }
 .gate h1 { font-size: 20px; margin: 0 0 10px; }
 .gate p { color: var(--ink-dim); white-space: pre-line; margin: 0 0 20px; word-break: break-all; }
-.gate-actions { display: flex; gap: 14px; justify-content: center; align-items: center; }
+.gate-actions { display: flex; gap: 14px; justify-content: center; align-items: center; flex-wrap: wrap; }
+.gate-choice { display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; color: var(--ink-dim); font-size: 13px; }
 
 /* --- the grid ----------------------------------------------------------- */
 .grid {

scripts/smoke.js

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 const path = require('node:path')
 const fs = require('node:fs')
 const store = require('../lib/store')
+const bootstrap = require('../lib/bootstrap')
 const i18n = require('../lib/i18n')
 
 function ok (label, value) {
@@ -34,6 +35,30 @@ async function main () {
     else ok(`strings:${lang}`, `${Object.keys(dict).length} keys`)
   }
 
+  // The registry is what decides which stores exist, so it is checked before
+  // anything that depends on one being installed.
+  try {
+    const stores = await bootstrap.registry()
+    if (!stores.length) bad('registry', `${bootstrap.REGISTRY_URL} returned no stores`)
+    else {
+      ok('registry', `${stores.length} store(s) from ${bootstrap.REGISTRY_URL}`)
+      for (const store of stores) {
+        ok(`  ${store.name}`, `${store.catalogUrl} · ${bootstrap.storeId(store)}`)
+        const url = bootstrap.configUrl(store.storeRepositoryUrl)
+        try {
+          const config = JSON.parse(await bootstrap.fetchText(url))
+          ok('  config.json', `${Object.keys(config).length} sections`)
+        } catch (err) {
+          // Not fatal: the engine merges onto its defaults, so a store without a
+          // config file still installs.
+          ok('  config.json', `absent (${err.statusCode || err.message}) — defaults would be used`)
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  } catch (err) {
+    bad('registry', `${bootstrap.REGISTRY_URL}: ${err.message}`)
+  }
+
   let target = null
   if (process.env.SMOKE_HOME) {
     const home = path.resolve(process.env.SMOKE_HOME)