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castellan plugin

List, inspect, scaffold, install, link, and uninstall dynamic plugins.

Usage

castellan plugin list
castellan plugin info <NAME>
castellan plugin new <NAME>
castellan plugin install --from <DIR>
castellan plugin install --git <URL> [--name <NAME>]
castellan plugin link --from <DIR> [--name <NAME>]
castellan plugin uninstall <NAME>

Installed plugins register via plugins.toml and build.rs — no hand-editing registry.rs.

installlink
Sourcescopied into crates/castellan-plugins/<name>symlinked — edits are live
Iteratere-install after every changerebuild only (cargo build)
Uninstalldeletes the copyremoves the symlink, sources intact

castellan plugin list reports "source": "builtin" | "install" | "link" per plugin.

Recipes

List registered plugins:

castellan plugin list

Install from local directory:

castellan plugin install --from ./my-plugin
cargo build --release -p castellan-cli   # rebuild to register

Iterate on a plugin without reinstall:

castellan plugin link --from ~/src/my-plugin
cargo build --release -p castellan-cli   # rebuild to register
# edit ~/src/my-plugin/src/lib.rs, rebuild — no re-link needed
castellan plugin uninstall my-plugin     # removes only the symlink

Install from git:

castellan plugin install --git https://github.com/example/castellan-gridworld-extra.git

Uninstall:

castellan plugin uninstall sample-plugin