Migrating an endpoint to TanStack Query

Only run this when the user explicitly asks to migrate an endpoint. The migration is in progress and opt-in — never convert endpoints as a side effect of other work.

The current picture

src/extension-registry-service.ts (ExtensionRegistryService, plus service.admin.*) holds every server call. Legacy, un-migrated consumers call these methods straight from a component, passing an AbortController and relying on fetch-retry's 10-attempt backoff inside sendRequest. That drags along per-component AbortController refs, useEffect fetch-on-mount wiring, and hand-rolled loading/error state.

Migrated endpoints instead go through a use* hook wrapping useQuery/useMutation, and retries move to the shared query client (src/query-client.ts). Roughly half the service is migrated — grep before assuming either state.

Steps

1. Find every consumer of the method you're migrating: grep -rn "service\.<method>\|\.<method>(" src. List them — you'll migrate all of them or a named subset.

2. Decide the retry scope — ask if unsure. Ideally the service method flips from sendRequest (retriable) to sendNonRetriableRequest, handing retries to TanStack. Only do that when every consumer is moving to a hook — a legacy consumer still calling the method directly would silently lose its retry. If you're migrating just one of several consumers, either leave the method retriable (the query then double-retries, tolerated in the interim) or confirm scope with the user. When the request doesn't make the consumer scope clear, ask.

3. Adjust the service method.

   • Query methods: keep the AbortController param — the hook passes controllerFromSignal(signal).
   • Mutation methods: drop the AbortController param — we no longer abort writes.

4. Create the hook — shape and naming per the tanstack-query-conventions skill. Co-locate it in the feature's folder first; move to src/hooks/ only when a second place needs it. The hook returns the react-query result object as-is, never just data or a picked subset.

5. Update the consumers. Replace the AbortController / useEffect / manual-state boilerplate with the hook, destructuring and renaming its result (const { data: user, error: userError } = ...; const { mutateAsync, isPending } = ...). Delete the dead boilerplate.

6. Finish per the write-code skill: add or update tests (write-tests), add a changelog entry, and pass yarn lint.

Don't

• Don't strip fetch-retry from sendRequest globally — that's the final cleanup once the whole migration is done, and un-migrated direct callers still depend on it. Keep the 429 / Retry-After block regardless.
• Don't migrate endpoints nobody asked you to.