WORK-160
ID:WORK-160Status:draft

Add discoverPlugins() helper to @refrakt-md/cli

Replace the lazy runPlugin import-on-demand pattern in packages/cli/src/bin.ts with a first-class discoverPlugins() helper that returns the full set of installed plugins. The helper has four consumers in v0.11.0 — CLI dispatch, refrakt --help, refrakt plugins list, and the new MCP server — and centralizing the logic eliminates three different implementations of the same scan.

Priority:highComplexity:moderateMilestone:v0.11.0Source:SPEC-043
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  1. 2b1f874
    Created (draft)by bjornolofandersson

Acceptance Criteria

  • New file packages/cli/src/lib/plugins.ts exports discoverPlugins(opts?: DiscoverOptions): Promise<DiscoveredPlugin[]>
  • DiscoveredPlugin shape: { namespace, packageName, packageVersion, commands, source: 'config' | 'dependency-scan' }
  • When refrakt.config.json declares plugins, that array is authoritative — the helper does not fall back to dependency scanning
  • When refrakt.config.json is absent or has no plugins field, the helper scans the nearest package.json's dependencies + devDependencies for @refrakt-md/* entries
  • Meta packages (@refrakt-md/cli, @refrakt-md/types, @refrakt-md/transform, @refrakt-md/runes, @refrakt-md/lumina, @refrakt-md/svelte, @refrakt-md/sveltekit, @refrakt-md/behaviors, @refrakt-md/content, @refrakt-md/ai, @refrakt-md/editor) are excluded from the scan
  • Each candidate package is dynamically imported via <pkg>/cli-plugin; missing exports are skipped silently
  • Malformed plugin exports (no namespace, no commands) emit a warning to stderr but do not throw
  • Duplicate namespaces emit a warning; first-wins resolution
  • Result sorted alphabetically by namespace
  • Tests cover: config-driven discovery, dependency-scan fallback, malformed plugin warning, duplicate namespace warning, missing cli-plugin export skipped silently

Approach

  1. Add lib/plugins.ts with the helper. Resolution order: load config → if plugins declared, use it; else fall back to scanning the project package.json.

  2. For each candidate, attempt import('<pkg>/cli-plugin') and validate the loaded module has { namespace: string, commands: CliPluginCommand[] }.

  3. Read packageVersion from each candidate's package.json (resolve via import.meta.resolve or require.resolve based on the package's exports). This metadata is used by refrakt plugins list.

  4. The helper is side-effect-free — it does not execute commands, does not write to disk, and does not cache results internally. Callers wrap with their own caching where useful.

Dependencies

  • WORK-159 — needs the normalized config to read plugins from

References

  • SPEC-043 — Refrakt MCP Server (Plugin Discovery section)
  • ADR-010 — Unified root-level refrakt config
  • packages/cli/src/bin.ts — current runPlugin to replace