Foundation for the AI chatbot + text generation feature. Phase 1 is infrastructure only: driver plumbing, configuration storage with encrypted API keys, global vs per-company resolution, admin + company UI pages, and an optional installer wizard step. The chat assistant and text-generation WYSIWYG integration come in later phases.
**Driver plumbing (app/Support/Ai/)** — AiDriver abstract, AiDriverFactory, AiException, AiChatResponse DTO, OpenRouterDriver concrete implementation. OpenRouter is the OpenAI-compatible aggregator that unlocks hundreds of models behind one API key and one request shape — ideal as the default v1 driver. Drivers are extensible the same way exchange rate drivers are: the module Registry's generic registerDriver('ai', ...) machinery plus a typed Registry::registerAiDriver() convenience wrapper (shipped in the upstream invoiceshelf/modules package in a paired commit).
**AiConfigurationService** — mirrors MailConfigurationService shape but with one deliberate deviation: API keys are encrypted at the service layer via Crypt::encryptString before persistence. OpenRouter bearer tokens have much bigger blast radius than SMTP passwords. Same settings / company_settings tables, same global-vs-per-company pattern, same use_custom_ai_config override toggle. Resolution order: global ai_enabled must be YES, then the company either overrides via use_custom_ai_config=YES (and can opt out with ai_enabled=NO inside the override) or inherits the global config.
**Controllers** — Admin/Settings/AiConfigurationController (global CRUD + driver list + test connection), Company/Settings/CompanyAiConfigurationController (per-company override + test), Setup/AiConfigurationController (installer wizard step, skippable with explicit ai_enabled=NO). API key is always masked as '********' in GET responses — the frontend submits the placeholder back on save and the backend preserves the stored value.
**Installer wizard** — new optional step 7 'AI' between Mail and Account. Default OFF with a Skip button. MailView.vue now routes to installation.ai instead of installation.account; installation.ai then routes to installation.account. Step order comment updated in routes.ts.
**Admin + Company settings pages** — AdminAiConfigView (no toggle, always global) and AiConfigView (with use_custom_ai_config BaseSwitchSection that auto-saves OFF). Both share AiConfigurationForm which renders the driver selector, API key input with show/hide, driver-specific config_fields (base_url for OpenRouter), and per-role enable toggles with free-text model inputs backed by a datalist of suggested models from driver metadata.
**Bootstrap endpoint** — adds an ai block to the response: { enabled, chat_enabled, text_generation_enabled }. All three are booleans resolved through AiConfigurationService::resolveForCompany(). Never leaks the API key. Frontend feature flags read from bootstrapData.ai to decide whether to show Phase 2/3 UI.
**Bouncer ability** 'manage ai config' added to SettingsPolicy, gated on isSuperAdmin() (same pattern as manage email config, manage pdf config).
**Tests** (22 new) — Unit: AiDriverFactory resolves built-in + Registry-contributed drivers, rejects unknown, merges availableDrivers. AiConfigurationService: encryption round-trip, resolution order (3 cases: global off, inherit global, override with company key, override with opt-out), makeDriver null/instance cases, listDrivers metadata. Feature: admin save + read with api key masking, preserve-on-placeholder behavior, company toggle ON/OFF semantics, bootstrap ai flags reflect resolution, company opt-out path.
372 tests pass (was 350, +22). Pint clean. npm run build clean. Phase 2 (chat assistant + tool calling) and Phase 3 (WYSIWYG text generation popup) are separate follow-up commits — this one is the foundation only.
Every main_menu entry moves from numeric group (1/2/3) to string-based group + group_label + priority. Groups now carry their own i18n label and child entries are sorted by an explicit priority field instead of config-array order, so module-contributed menu items can slot into any existing group at any position.
BootstrapController merges module-registered menu items into main_menu (previously they lived in a separate module_menu response key) and introduces a user_menu response key for items modules want to place in the avatar dropdown. The global store follows suit: moduleMenu becomes userMenu, menuGroups is a computed that sorts by priority, and hasActiveModules drops out.
New admin Appearance setting page with a single toggle for whether sidebar group labels render — so instances that prefer a compact sidebar can hide the Documents/Administration/Modules headings without losing the grouping itself. CompanyLayout watches route meta and re-bootstraps when the admin-mode flag flips so the sidebar repaints with the right menu on navigation across the admin boundary.
Test suites updated: module menu merging is asserted against main_menu (name: 'module-{slug}') rather than the old module_menu response; HelloWorldIntegrationTest verifies the schema translation path; CompanyModulesIndexTest covers the display_name attachment.
The sidebar gains a new section that lists each currently-activated module
as a direct shortcut to its settings page. This is the always-visible
companion to the company-context Active Modules index — both surface the
same set of modules, but the index is the catalog landing page and the
sidebar group is the per-module quick access.
- BootstrapController returns module_menu populated from
\InvoiceShelf\Modules\Registry::allMenu(), but only on the company-context
branch — not on the super-admin branch (lines 53-69), since super admins
don't see the dynamic group. Because nwidart only boots service providers
for currently-activated modules, the registry naturally contains only
active modules at request time, no extra filtering needed.
- bootstrap.service.ts BootstrapResponse type extended with
module_menu?: ModuleMenuItem[]; new ModuleMenuItem interface
(title/link/icon) — shaped distinctly from MenuItem because module entries
use namespaced i18n keys and don't carry group/ability metadata.
- global.store.ts exposes a moduleMenu ref + a hasActiveModules computed.
- SiteSidebar.vue appends a new "Modules" section after the existing
menuGroups output, in both the mobile (Dialog) and desktop branches. The
section is hidden when hasActiveModules is false. Uses the
modules.sidebar.section_title i18n key added in the previous commit.
Super admin users with no company associations now receive their
administration menu items in the bootstrap response instead of
empty arrays.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Redistribute methods:
- show() -> BootstrapController::currentCompany()
- store(), destroy(), userCompanies() -> Admin\CompaniesController
- transferOwnership() -> CompanySettingsController
Security fix: introduce 'owner' role for company-level admin, distinct
from 'super admin' which is now global platform admin only.
- CompanyService::setupRoles() creates 'owner' role per company
- Company creation assigns scoped 'owner' role instead of global 'super admin'
- Seeders updated to assign 'owner'
Migration renames all existing company-scoped 'super admin' roles to
'owner' and ensures every company owner has the role assigned.
V1/Admin -> Company (company-scoped controllers)
V1/SuperAdmin -> Admin (platform-wide admin controllers)
V1/Customer -> CustomerPortal (customer-facing portal)
V1/Installation -> Setup (installation wizard)
V1/PDF -> Pdf (consistent casing)
V1/Modules -> Modules (drop V1 prefix)
V1/Webhook -> Webhook (drop V1 prefix)
The V1 prefix served no purpose - API versioning is in the route prefix
(/api/v1/), not the controller namespace. "Admin" was misleading for
company-scoped controllers. "SuperAdmin" is now simply "Admin" for
platform administration.
