plugin-feature

Placement	compiled-in (in-process)
Source	github.com/opencharly/plugin-feature/candy/plugin-feature
Version	2026.179.0000
Candy	plugin-feature

This plugin is listed in charly/charly.yml’s compiled_plugins:, so its providers are compiled into the charly binary and register in-process.

Providers

The reserved words this plugin serves:

• feature — command class

What it does

COMPILED-IN charly COMMAND-class plugin (command:feature) serving the externalized charly feature … CLI — the plan-shaped-description inspection surface (list / pending / validate). The plugin OWNS the subcommand grammar, the output formatting (command.go: runFeatureCLI) AND the project ENUMERATION — the former “feature” HostBuild seam’s body (charly/host_build_feature.go) is DELETED (K-wave 2 cone R6): the loader is plugin-reachable, so enumerateFeatures loads the project PLUGIN-SIDE over the reverse channel via loaderkit (LoadUnifiedViaExecutor + ProjectCandiesScanned + FinalizeScannedCandies) and flattens every kind: entity’s plan into plain DATA (per-entity kind/name/description/plan, spec.FeatureEntity). The Step plan model + validatePlanSteps (shared with charly box validate, R3) are spec/kit. The plugin does ALL the list/pending/validate formatting + the exit code. No core symbol crosses the boundary. (The Feature RUN verbs are NOT part of this move — charly box feature run / charly check feature run stay children of box/check in the core binary.)

feature is COMPILED-IN (charly.yml compiled_plugins) because its Invoke(OpRun) (provider.go) needs the in-proc reverse channel — threaded by dispatchInProcCommand (“Seam A”) — to reach the host loader legs for the plugin-side load; the out-of-process CliMain path has no reverse channel and errors. NewMeta advertises command:feature, so the compiled-in registry path (registerCompiledPlugin → resolve(ClassCommand,“feature”) → dispatchInProcCommand → Invoke(OpRun)) dispatches it in-process, where it owns the operator’s terminal stdio natively.

The R10 witness is the disposable check-feature-local bed: charly feature list candy exits 0 and lists this project’s candies — including the plugin-feature candy itself — proving the compiled-in command + the plugin-side loader enumeration end-to-end.

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See also the candy reference for this candy’s install surface.