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).
Catalog entries sort official → stars desc → name, both in browse shelves and
filtered grids, with a ★ pill on each card linking to the repo's stargazers.
Rate-limit discipline is the design constraint: the docs site deploys many
times a day and shares one GitHub App API budget with every other workflow
(tonight's merge train got rate-limited on unrelated uploads). So
website/scripts/fetch-plugin-stars.py first fetches the live site's own
plugin-stars.json (a CDN GET, not the API); if that cache is under 24h old it
is reused verbatim and GitHub is never called. Only a stale cache triggers one
GET /repos/{owner}/{repo} per unique catalog repo, and a 403/429 mid-run keeps
the previous counts instead of zeroing them. extract-plugins.py merges the
cache into plugins.json (`stars`) and plugins-meta.json (`starsFetchedAt`), and
the page footnote says when the ranking was last refreshed.
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.
- hermes_cli/plugins_cmd_catalog.py: new sibling owning resolution, the
.hermes-catalog.json provenance sidecar, search/info/validate, re-pin on
update, and the dashboard/TUI payload builders. plugins_cmd.py only
gains the hooks (cmd_install catalog branch, cmd_update / dashboard
update re-pin, dashboard_install_plugin catalog_name + kill list,
dispatch entries); the community index (plugin_index.py) is gone.
- hermes_cli/plugin_catalog.py: catalog_dir parameter replaces the
test-only HERMES_PLUGIN_CATALOG_DIR env var; live refresh reads ONE
published document (/docs/api/plugin-catalog.json, 6h cache, in-tree
fallback) instead of the unauthenticated GitHub contents API (60 req/h,
1 request per entry); in-tree and live removals are unioned so a stale
cache can never un-block.
- Catalog route lives in web_routers/dashboard_ui.py (the facade is off
limits); _plugin_runtime_status shared from web_server_dashboard.py;
hub rows carry removed_reason. TUI plugins.manage gains catalog_name
install, catalog row fields and an update action.
- plugin_validate: the probe context honours ctx.get_config defaults
(real plugins do int(ctx.get_config("timeout", 180)) in register()).
- Installed-state merge matches through the sidecar's catalog_name
first — catalog names rarely equal manifest names.
- extract-plugins.py emits plugin-catalog.json; deploy-site triggers on
plugin-catalog/** so entry merges republish it.
- Capabilities gains a 4th tab (Plugins): the scoped (connection, profile)'s
installed agent plugins with toggles, and the live docs-site plugin catalog
embedded underneath (?embed=picker) — same shape as the Skills hub.
- '+ Add to this Agent' on a catalog card opens the existing dual-target
install modal: the agent half installs at the catalog's reviewed pin into
the scoped profile (plugins.manage catalog_name= passthrough), the desktop
half installs locally; bundled agent+desktop packages offer both in one flow.
- Settings > Plugins: desktop halves of bundled packages get an
'agent half missing here' badge when the currently connected backend/profile
lacks the agent component — the one-app/N-agents drift is now visible.
- Docs /plugins page: picker embed mode (chrome hidden, pick button posts
hermes-plugin-pick), subdir carried through the extractor.
- Gateway plugins.manage install accepts catalog_name (resolved server-side
against the backend's own catalog; removed-blocklist enforced, no bypass).
