dsh-plugin-observatory

Dealing with plugin development can be tricky. Ensuring that your local plugin correctly declares bundles, runtime dependencies, and host versions before activation is crucial to avoid runtime crashes. DSH Plugin Observatory is designed to tackle this challenge head-on. It offers a pre-installation inspection mechanism, allowing developers to quickly validate the integrity of local plugins and ensure that dependencies, patches, and version compatibility meet expectations before the system even boots up.

The core of this plugin lies in its powerful dual-toolset. plugin_audit acts as a strict auditor, inspecting package metadata and declared patches without executing target JavaScript code. It generates deterministic, machine-readable reports to help developers identify missing manifest details, version mismatches, and duplicate IDs. Complementing this is plugin_observe, which provides a bounded runtime observation layer, allowing developers to track the current Loader state and Fiber transition history without becoming a second source of truth.

Whether you are a plugin author, maintainer, or a tool builder, DSH Plugin Observatory is an essential addition to your toolkit. It not only helps you quickly answer critical questions about plugin compatibility but also catches potential issues before activation, significantly improving system stability. By offloading the burden of configuration validation to this tool, you can focus on the core logic of your plugins without worrying about low-level configuration errors.