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Part of Phase 7 of the plugin system roadmap (#3, phase issue #11). It builds on #24, so until #14 to #24 merge this diff also shows their commits.

Plugins could be installed from a folder or a git repository. npm is where most JavaScript tools are published, so this adds it as a third source.

  • plugins.install({ source: { type: "npm", name, version? } }) reads the package from the npm registry, using the latest tag when no version is given. It downloads the tarball and checks it against the registry's sha512 dist.integrity before anything is written. A package without a sha512 hash, or one that doesn't match, is refused.
  • The server has no tar library, so pluginTarball.ts is a small extractor for npm tarballs. It writes regular files only, from the package/ folder only. It refuses links, devices and any path with .., and caps the package at 32 MiB downloaded, 64 MiB unpacked and 4,096 files.
  • The rest is the existing install: staging, the swap that keeps the previous version on failure, and the recorded source, so Update works for npm plugins too. An unpinned package updates to its latest version.
  • The Add plugin form and t3_plugins_install accept npm packages, and the user guide mentions them.
  • Also fixes a lint warning in PluginMcpTools.setHostActions from feat(plugins): run-completed hook, richer send hook and agent plugin tools #21.

Measurements: nothing runs unless someone installs a package. The registry is only contacted during an install or update.

Test plugins: made in the tests: an npm tarball with a manifest and a server entry, served by a fake registry.

Verification:

  • pluginTarball.test.ts unpacks a tarball with a folder entry and a pax long name. It refuses a .. path, a file outside package/, a symlink and a hard link.
  • The PluginHost.test.ts install case installs a package from the fake registry and checks it runs. A package whose integrity hash doesn't match is refused, and nothing is added to plugins/.
  • vp run check:changed passed.
  • Not verified: an install from the real npm registry, since no T3 plugin is published there yet.

Review: a second adversarial review of #23 to #25 found issues in this PR; the fixes are in #26.


PR filed by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code through T3 Code.

ashx-j and others added 16 commits October 31, 2026 21:22
…bility flag

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PluginHost discovers installed and dev plugins, loads enabled CommonJS
entries after the server is listening, and hands each a Promise-based API
for logging, settings, storage, RPC methods and channels. Failures mark the
plugin failed and never stop the server. Settings live beside T3's state
with secrets in the server secret store; storage is a lazily opened SQLite
file. Eight plugins.* WebSocket methods manage plugins, and the environment
advertises plugins: true.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An adversarial review found that reloading one plugin left plugins whose
folders vanished running, that a caller disconnecting mid-disable left a
plugin half torn down but still routed, that a misspelled access level
made a write method callable by read-only sessions, and that reload kept
old code for symlinked plugin folders. Lifecycle changes now run in the
host's scope, vanished plugins are stopped, access must be read or write,
and discovery resolves real paths. Activation and cleanups get deadlines,
calls stop routing before teardown, and plugins.json keeps unknown keys.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Settings gains a Plugins page for the selected environment: each plugin
with its status, failure, enable switch and reload, plus a settings form
generated from the manifest's JSON Schema with write-only secret fields
and a JSON fallback. The page follows plugins.subscribeStates only while
open; the form model lives in client-runtime for the later mobile screen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ng and send hooks

Plugins can now follow stored orchestration events by type, read and act
on threads and projects, run scheduled work, see and extend outgoing
messages before they are sent, offer MCP tools to agents and serve HTTP
routes under /api/plugins/<id>, and read the server's version, descriptor
and redacted settings. The send hook runs in ThreadManagementService.dispatch
with a 2 s deadline and fails open; with no hooks it is one Ref read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… writes

An adversarial review found that a send hook appending to /goal clear
turned it into setting a goal, that the SDK promised a veto nothing
honoured, that several event types merged out of sequence order, that a
schedule could outlive its plugin, and that plugin write tools skipped the
caller's mode limits. Hooks now skip slash commands, veto is gone from the
SDK, multi-type event streams stay ordered, schedules and hooks stop on
the deactivation signal, API calls end after cleanups, plugin write tools
need full access like environment writes, and tool schemas must be objects.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plugins could only run on the server. The server now serves each active
plugin's web bundle, and the web app loads it once an active plugin has a
web part: a starter follows plugin state after idle, and the loader fetches
bundles with the connection's credentials and imports them from blob URLs.
Bundles share the app's React, atom hooks and UI kit through a host object.

Plugins can add right panels, listed in the add menu and the empty panel,
and replace their generated settings form. An unloaded plugin's panel shows
"Plugin not active" with a close button. The desktop CSP allows blob scripts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Web plugins could add panels but nothing users could run from the
keyboard. Plugins can now register command palette commands that users
bind as plugin.<pluginId>.<commandId>, and slash commands in the composer
that run plugin code. They can also navigate and load files from their
assets folder, which the server serves under /api/plugins/<id>/assets/*.

The SDK gains a Vite preset that builds web.js against T3's React and UI
kit, keeping only the names a plugin uses, and typed UI components.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…om plugins

Web plugins could add panels and commands but not change how T3 looks or
how conversations read. A plugin's themes/ folder is now published through
the environment theme service, so its themes reach every client. Web
plugins can show composer banners, draw their own MCP tool calls in the
timeline, draw fenced code of a language in chat messages, and inject
styles. Everything is removed when the plugin unloads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tools

Plugins could see a message before it was sent but not what happened
after, and agents could list plugins but not use them.

turns.afterRunCompleted delivers every ended run in order, saving its
position in the plugin's storage so runs that end while the plugin is off
arrive when it starts. turns.beforeDispatch now gets the message id,
attachment summaries and the requested model. Agents get
t3_plugins_invoke and t3_plugins_set_enabled, gated as writes and only
advertised once a plugin is installed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plugins had to be copied into the data folder by hand or listed as dev
folders. plugins.install now takes a folder on the server or a git
repository, stages it, checks the manifest and swaps it into place with a
rename, keeping the previous version if anything fails. plugins.uninstall
stops and deletes a plugin, keeping its data unless asked otherwise.

Settings → Plugins gets an Add plugin form and a remove action, agents get
t3_plugins_install and t3_plugins_uninstall, a user guide explains it, and
the SDK gets a README for plugin authors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An adversarial review of the plugin stack found 10 issues. Uninstalling a
symlinked plugin deleted the folder behind the link. afterRunCompleted
delivered interrupted runs twice and could skip runs while catching up.
A cancelled install could race its own swap, and a crash mid-swap lost
the plugin. The web loader leaked registrations made after unload, let
one stuck plugin block the rest, kept stale code after a same-version
reload, and added a shortcut handler before any plugin command existed.
Plugin tool renderers only matched Codex tool names.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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