Discussion: Plugins or Extensions

[geoffmiller]

@simion you are an absolute beast implementing all these feature requests and many thanks to you for all your hard work and token spend.

I wonder if a discussion around a plugin/extension system would be beneficial. Allowing uses to craft tools for Termic suiting their specific needs/wants/preferences/etc.

Now, I don't imaging a full-blown VS Code style extension system but something more like Pi's extension API where the user has hooks into Termic's flow and UI.

Things that I would build plugins for (to seed some ideas):

1. Some sort of visual indicator in the Dashboard > Projects > Task list showing what ports that agent has opened. One of my apps requires 4 services/ports to run per worktree and I frequently forget which task started what, etc.

2. Linear integration/my own custom .md issue tracker UI toggle/list - I currently run a terminal TUI dashboard for my issue tracker and Linear but would love to be able to have a dedicated button in the UI to view/interact with them.

3. Token spend/Widgets - I would be great if I could put a status line/bar/UI toggle/UI block/Notifications/etc somewhere that I can feed data to and it updates on an interval. Hope this helps seed some ideas on what a user could want to do on top

Have you thought about this before? My ultimate goal is to stay in Termic as much as possible for all coding/agentic work (sans a browser - that doesn't need to be in Termic). Every user/codebase/agent is different so I wonder if a plugin API would help and prevent feature bloat down the road too.

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Also, I'm happy to get help in whatever way you would like.

[simion]

@geoffmiller thank you for the kind words 🙌 really appreciate it.

Some of the features are actually planed, (first class Linear integration), I will start a new job soon and the company uses linear so I'll use it first hand.

I did think of an extension system tbh, mainly for adding smart language features, similar to VSCode, but then I found that CodeMirror has suport for most languages + will add suport for LSP, so this matter will be solved too.

I do like what you proposed, for adding custom buttons, status bar, etc.

The only problem I see is that I won't have any visibility in what users implement/customize, so new releases may break their plugins / UI customizations. Unless there's a plugins store and I can install and test them.

We can start small.

Let's see what other users may use plugins for. What use cases they might have.

Meanwhile, I will merge and release GH PR/issues support so we have a basis for linear too.

I will reorganize the docs, so we have separate section for research, ideas, and fully approved plans so anyone could hand those plans to their agent and contribute with some token spend 😁🤝