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AxiOwl installer checkboxes should represent provider features, not decorative labels.
When a user checks a provider option, they are giving the installer permission to perform work for that provider surface. That work may include installing an extension, writing MCP config, applying a patch, running discovery, adding docs, or validating the result.
That means the checkbox contract must be precise.
For example, a VS Code provider option may map to a bridge extension, MCP config, and metadata patch. A Cursor option may map to a bridge extension, MCP config, submit patch, discovery, rollback restore, and rollback commit. A Claude option may map to CLI MCP config. Remote options may map to enrollment, deploy, and discovery.
The user should be able to understand what each checkbox does.
Unchecked features should not be touched as collateral damage. If Cursor is unchecked, the installer should not patch Cursor. If Codex is unchecked, the installer should not remove or rewrite Codex config. Granular selection is only meaningful when install and uninstall behavior honors it.
Checkboxes also need good defaults. A provider should be preselected when discovery finds it and the feature is eligible. It should not be preselected just because AxiOwl has code for it.
This turns the MSI from a generic installer into a provider-aware setup tool.
The checkbox is the user's permission boundary. AxiOwl should treat it that seriously.