first dated version. plugins were all sitting on 1.0.0, which said nothing about
when a build was made or which of two copies is newer — the platform already
uses YYYY.MM.DD.NN and this follows it.
the version lives in manifest.ts because a plugin has no package.json; that is
the field the marketplace publishes and the installer compares.
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opencode discovers AGENTS.md and nothing else; claude code discovers CLAUDE.md.
this repo had neither, so an agent sent to change something here arrived with no
guidance at all under either.
it deliberately does NOT repeat README.md. that file says what the plugin is,
for someone deciding whether to install it. this one answers the other question:
i have to change something in here, what will i break.
the facts in it are read from the repository rather than recalled — the panel
keys from web/panels.ts, the tables from db/schema.ts, the permission keys, the
host binaries and the route claims from manifest.ts. presence is the declaration
everywhere in this system, so the file says what the platform will actually
conclude from these files existing.
CLAUDE.md beside it is a pointer, not a copy: two copies drift and the stale one
is the one somebody reads.
tags are how the marketplace is browsed rather than scrolled: a list of them on
the left, the plugins that carry one on the right. a closed vocabulary
(PLUGIN_TAGS in the platform) because free text becomes homelab, home-lab, Home
Lab and selfhosted inside a month, and a filter list of synonyms is worse than
no filter at all.
declared here rather than curated in the catalogue, so a plugin can say what it
is and nobody edits a table when one ships. the marketplace caches it on sync,
exactly as it already does for label and summary.
teaBinary hardcoded ~/.local/bin:$PATH. Right for tea, wrong as a habit: iris wrote the same function
with ~/.cargo/bin added, the two disagreed, and a rustup-only machine was refused a plugin its own
sidecar could build.
locateBinary asks the owner's login shell, so it knows about every directory a per-user installer
added without anyone listing them. Verified it still resolves tea from ~/.local/bin, which is the case
the comment above it was written for.
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