Reconcile plugin declarations and validation through PM's atomic generation publication; preserve external runtimes, target markers, and conflict refusal. Keep one source-update completion owner and port upstream lifecycle changes to the PM desktop/runtime paths.
The 40-hex sha stays the release, but nobody reads one. Entries may now add
`version: "1.4.0"` (free-form, <=32 chars, never parsed) and `image:` (an https
URL on raw.githubusercontent.com / github.com / *.githubusercontent.com).
Why GitHub-only: the Desktop catalog browser deliberately never fetches from
third-party hosts, and a raw URL pinned to the entry commit is as immutable as
the sha it decorates.
Readers updated together: PluginCatalogEntry + entry_from_mapping (drop with a
warning, entry survives), validate_plugin_catalog.py (admission error), the
site extractor (drop, never fatal), the /docs/plugins card (banner + version
pill + "1.4.0 @ abcd1234" pin), the CLI table/info (pin_label), the TUI-gateway
plugin row (catalog_version -> Desktop "Update to 1.4.0"), and the Desktop
catalog detail header (image).
Teknium's call: most community submissions are Desktop panes, so an entry
without a category lands on the Desktop shelf; "other" becomes "general" for
plugins that genuinely span areas. Shelf order puts Desktop first. The six
entries merged today (pets-all, newswire, auto-titler, live-voice,
metamask-wallet, web-octen) get explicit categories.
The catalog page was one undifferentiated grid filtered only by tier, so a
memory provider sat between two Desktop panes. Entries now carry an optional
``category`` (memory | desktop | platform | web | tools | voice | automation |
models | other, default other) that the loader, the admission validator and
the site extractor all understand.
/docs/plugins renders one shelf per category in browse mode, a category pill
row under the tier pills, a clickable category chip on every card, and a
results bar (active category, count, clear) when a filter or search flattens
the view. ``hermes plugins catalog`` gains a Category column and groups by it.
All 18 shipped entries are categorised. Unknown categories fail admission
(same contract as tier) so a typo cannot create a phantom shelf.
Activation reaches plugin discovery before the application dependencies
exist. Give PM its own locked Python project and runtime so it can install
or repair the application without importing that dependency tree.
Keep PM outside the application workspace. A shared uv workspace resolves
the application graph and cannot provide this isolation. Route mutations
through an isolated worker and preserve transaction callbacks, cancellation,
custom package registrations, and correlated receipts.
Use the same runtime builder for source installs and packaged payloads.
Keep offline wheelhouse support in that builder. Nix builds the independent
PM lock as a separate derivation. Refuse lazy-disabled bootstrap before
installing tools or dependencies.
Move first-party YAML readers and writers to ruamel. Keep the application
lock's transitive PyYAML requirements for third-party packages.
Verification:
- Focused canonical Python suite: 177 passed, 1 host-gated skip.
- Electron backend probes: 12 passed. Electron typecheck passed.
- Both uv locks, scoped lint, Bash syntax, and whitespace checks passed.
- Cold activation, corrupt-app repair, offline staging, and relocation ran.
- Built and exercised the Nix PM runtime and standalone YAML merge script.
Six broader caller test files retain the same 24 failing test IDs as an
archive of HEAD. The existing real-home guard blocks those tests before
they can exercise the affected paths. No full-suite pass is claimed.
Native Windows signing and full Bionic package execution remain unverified.
- scripts/validate_plugin_catalog.py: standalone stdlib+pyyaml structural
validator for plugin-catalog entries and removed.yaml (no hermes install
needed; runtime twin of hermes_cli/plugin_catalog.py). --json support,
unknown top-level keys warn instead of failing for forward compat.
- .github/actions/plugin-validate: composite action plugin authors drop
into their own repo's CI — installs hermes-agent from a chosen ref and
runs 'hermes plugins validate <path>'.
- .github/workflows/plugin-catalog-ci.yml: admission gate on PRs touching
plugin-catalog/** — structural job plus pinned-source job that clones
each changed entry's repo, hard-fails on unreachable pinned sha
(supply-chain gate), and validates the plugin at that exact commit.
