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Installer provider contracts define what each provider feature is allowed to touch.
This is necessary because AxiOwl integrates with several provider surfaces, and each one can require different install actions. Without a contract, helper code can drift into broad behavior: closing apps unnecessarily, modifying unchecked providers, cleaning unrelated files, or running stale actions.
A provider contract can list:
– provider id;
– MSI property;
– detection property;
– display label;
– feature ids;
– payload component prefixes;
– custom actions;
– provider-only process groups;
– log scopes;
– whether the provider is remote-only.
That structure gives the installer something to validate. If a provider has no feature ids, that is a bug. If a provider is default checked without discovery evidence, that is a bug. If a remote-only feature is checked without explicit user selection, that is a bug.
Contracts also make cleanup safer. The installer can know which features belong to Codex, VS Code, Cursor, Claude, Copilot CLI, Antigravity, or remote support. That reduces accidental cross-provider changes.
This is especially important for reinstall and uninstall flows. Users expect robust cleanup, but robust does not mean broad and careless. It means aggressive within the selected provider boundary and restrained outside it.
Provider contracts are a way to encode that boundary in software.
They turn installer intent from scattered custom action conditions into a model that can be tested.