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Plugin/hook capability API expands: renamed fs actions, new env/settings/session capabilities, and a terminal UI surface system

Plugins and hooks gain renamed filesystem actions, new capabilities for settings/env/session usage, stricter validation, and a new terminal UI system

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Plugins and hooks gain renamed filesystem actions, new capabilities for settings/env/session usage, stricter validation, and a new terminal UI system

What

  • The plugin capability actions fs.readFile, fs.writeFile, and fs.listDir are renamed to fs.read, fs.write, and fs.list (including the underlying IPC event name).
  • Plugins and hooks gain four new capabilities: session.usage (read session usage stats), settings.read (read merged settings from a named source), and env.get/env.set (read and write environment variables) — all fully wired with permission checks and handlers.
  • New validation guards these and other hook APIs: a hook's on('event') matcher can't be a nested object matched against a primitive; next(e) handlers for env.get/env.set can only change the value's data, not other fields; and ui.message calls can't rewrite fields like surface, component, requestId, element, or module (only data may change), and are rejected if their serialized data is too deeply nested or too large.
  • A large new subsystem lets plugins mount custom terminal UI elements ("Clients") declared via a surface field in hooks.json. It handles rendering, mounting/unmounting, resizing, mouse and keyboard input, hover/focus state, a row-budget that can reject renders pushing a dialog over its row limit, and message dispatch between the plugin and its UI.

Why Together these give plugins and hooks a broader, more capable API — access to environment variables, settings, and session usage, plus the ability to draw real interactive terminal UI — while the renamed, more consistent action names and new validation keep that expanded surface from letting a plugin corrupt data it shouldn't touch or send oversized payloads.

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