Package Plugin

You validate and package either a built-in marketplace wrapper or a standalone project-local wrapper. Standalone wrappers are auto-discovered under .aiwg/plugins/<name>/ and emitted as deterministic provider archives.

Triggers

Alternate expressions and non-obvious activations (primary phrases are matched automatically from the skill description):

• "bundle the voice plugin for release" → package voice plugin
• "prepare the SDLC plugin for distribution" → package sdlc plugin
• "create the plugin wrapper" → package the generated provider wrapper
• "publish project-local plugin" → validate and package the repository-local wrapper
• "standalone plugin repository" → use the community/team repository workflow

Trigger Patterns Reference

Pattern	Example	Action
Package plugin	"package plugin sdlc"	Run aiwg package-plugin sdlc
Bundle plugin	"bundle plugin voice"	Run aiwg package-plugin voice
Create package	"create plugin package utils"	Run aiwg package-plugin utils
Dry run	"validate sdlc plugin before packaging"	Run aiwg package-plugin sdlc --dry-run
Standalone wrapper	"package project-local plugin team-tools"	Run aiwg package-plugin team-tools --dry-run
Explicit source	"package wrapper from wrappers/team-tools"	Run aiwg package-plugin team-tools --source wrappers/team-tools

Behavior

When triggered:

1. Extract intent:

   • Which delivery wrapper is being packaged?
   • Which provider wrapper is needed?
   • Should existing generated output be cleaned first?
   • Is this a validation dry run?

2. Run the appropriate command:

   # Package a marketplace wrapper (creates archive, no publish)
   aiwg package-plugin sdlc
   aiwg package-plugin voice
   aiwg package-plugin marketing
   
   # Validate only — no archive created
   aiwg package-plugin sdlc --dry-run
   
   # Build one provider-specific wrapper
   aiwg package-plugin sdlc --provider codex
   
   # Clean generated output before rebuilding
   aiwg package-plugin sdlc --clean
   
   # Standalone/project-local wrapper (auto-discovered)
   aiwg package-plugin team-tools --provider all --output dist/plugins
   
   # Explicit in-repository source
   aiwg package-plugin team-tools --source wrappers/team-tools --provider codex
   

3. Report the result — confirm generated wrapper path and included file counts.

What the Package Contains

A generated plugin wrapper includes provider metadata plus the selected payload files:

Contents	Path in Archive
Agent definitions	agents/
Command definitions	commands/
Skill definitions	skills/
Rule definitions	rules/
Delivery manifest	plugin.json
Changelog	CHANGELOG.md (if present)

Files excluded from packages: .aiwg/working/, test fixtures, development-only configs.

Pre-Package Validation

Before creating the archive, the command automatically runs:

1. aiwg validate-metadata — all extension definitions must pass
2. Version format check — must be valid CalVer
3. Delivery manifest completeness — id, name, description, version required

Packaging fails if any validation step fails.

Examples

Example 1: Package for release

User: "Package the voice plugin for release"

Extraction: Package voice plugin, no publish

Action:

aiwg package-plugin voice

Response: "Generated the voice marketplace wrapper under agentic/code/plugins/voice."

Example 2: Validate before packaging

User: "Check if the SDLC plugin is ready to package"

Extraction: Dry-run validation

Action:

aiwg package-plugin sdlc --dry-run

Response: "Dry run: sdlc plugin metadata passed (58 agents, 42 commands, 12 skills, 33 rules validated). Ready to package. 1 warning: CHANGELOG.md not found — package will be created without it."

Example 3: Package for Codex

User: "Build the marketing plugin for Codex"

Extraction: Package marketing for the Codex provider

Action:

aiwg package-plugin marketing --provider codex

Response: "Generated the Codex marketing wrapper under agentic/code/plugins/marketing."

Example 4: Clean rebuild

User: "Clean and rebuild the utils plugin"

Extraction: Remove prior generated output, then package

Action:

aiwg package-plugin utils --clean

Response: "Cleaned and regenerated the utils wrapper."

Standalone repository contract

The wrapper must contain manifest.json with type: plugin and a pluginConfig declaring payloadType and traversal-safe payloadPath. The payload requires its own matching manifest. Sources must remain inside the current repository; symlink escapes and output collisions are rejected. Payload files are copied byte-for-byte into deterministic Claude and/or Codex archives.

See docs/customization/standalone-plugin-repository.md for the complete scaffold, validation, install-smoke, versioning, licensing, and publication workflow.

Unsupported legacy examples

--publish and --bump remain intentionally unsupported. Publish generated archives through the repository's release workflow and change versions in the authoritative wrapper/payload manifests before packaging.

References

• @$AIWG_ROOT/src/cli/handlers/subcommands.ts — Command handler
• @$AIWG_ROOT/docs/cli-reference.md — CLI reference
• @$AIWG_ROOT/docs/contributing/versioning.md — CalVer versioning rules