[Ayush7614]

Summary

• Add zero plugins enable|disable <id> to toggle the enabled field in plugin.json (with --user / --json)
• Add the plugins.SetEnabledByID helper used by the CLI
• Serialize the toggle with plugins add / plugins remove: it takes the same installtxn lock on the plugin's install root, runs installtxn.Recover under it (as Install/Remove do) and aborts on an unresolved transaction, re-resolves the plugin under the lock, and publishes with installtxn.WriteFileAtomically
• Edit only the bytes of the enabled value so field order, formatting, and numeric literals in the rest of the manifest survive
• Update docs/EXTENDING.md and the enable/disable help so the documented gap matches the new commands, including that a running interactive session keeps the plugins it started with until restarted

Closes #790

Test plan

Rebased onto main at 16ccd787. All gates were run on the pushed tree 87ecb28 with Go 1.26.10:

• make fmt-check, go vet ./..., git diff HEAD --check
• go test ./... -race: every package passes except internal/tui TestRelativeAgeFormatsLastActivity, which fails identically on unmodified main in America/Los_Angeles and passes with TZ=UTC
• go run ./cmd/zero-release build and go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke
• make vulncheck: no vulnerabilities. make lint-static (advisory): 4 existing findings, none in files this PR changes
• Windows: TestSetEnabledPreservesManifestMode is skipped on windows

The recovery regression tests fail without the installtxn.Recover call:

--- FAIL: TestSetEnabledByIDResolvesInterruptedUpdatesFirst/S3_after_swap_before_publish
    enabled_test.go:743: the live tree is the "new" generation, want "old"
    enabled_test.go:750: the disable did not stick: Load sees the plugin enabled
--- FAIL: TestSetEnabledByIDResolvesInterruptedUpdatesFirst/S4_after_publish_before_cleanup
    enabled_test.go:743: the resolved workspace should be cleared, got <nil>
--- FAIL: TestSetEnabledByIDAbortsOnAnUnresolvedInterruptedUpdate
    enabled_test.go:810: toggle did not report the unresolved transaction

TestSetEnabledByIDReportsAPluginRemovedWhileWaiting fails when the lookup under the lock is removed (open .../zero.demo/plugin.json: no such file or directory, want ErrNotInstalled).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added zero plugins enable <id> and zero plugins disable <id> commands to toggle plugins without removing them.
  • Added --user to target user-installed plugins and --json for JSON output. Without --user, project plugins take precedence over user-installed plugins with the same ID.
  • Commands report whether the plugin’s state changed or was already set. Changes take effect on the next run; restart an active interactive session to reload plugin components.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserve plugin manifest permissions, formatting, and other values when changing enablement.

• Documentation

  • Updated plugin guidance with the commands and the default enabled behavior when the enabled field is omitted.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Adds zero plugins enable and zero plugins disable. The commands update a plugin’s manifest, support project-plugin precedence and user-only selection, and return text or JSON results. Tests cover manifest updates, locking, recovery, and CLI behavior.

Changes

Plugin enablement controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Manifest updates internal/plugins/enabled.go, internal/plugins/enabled_test.go, internal/plugins/info.go	Adds plugin lookup and updates to the manifest’s enabled value. The update preserves other manifest bytes, handles formatting and invalid input, and includes tests for state changes and validation.
Locked toggle and recovery internal/plugins/enabled.go, internal/plugins/enabled_test.go	Coordinates toggles with install-root locks and interrupted-update recovery. Tests cover concurrent install and removal, lockfile hashes, and recovery outcomes.
CLI commands and output internal/cli/extensions.go, internal/cli/extensions_test.go	Adds enable and disable commands, flags, help text, error handling, and text or redacted JSON output. Tests cover idempotence, missing IDs, output, and user-only selection.
Plugin activation documentation docs/EXTENDING.md	Documents the commands, default activation state, plugin selection, and manifest formatting preservation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~40 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant PluginCLI
  participant SetEnabledByID
  participant PluginManifest
  User->>PluginCLI: request enable or disable for plugin id
  PluginCLI->>SetEnabledByID: pass id, requested state, and load options
  SetEnabledByID->>PluginManifest: update enabled value
  PluginManifest-->>SetEnabledByID: return manifest update result
  SetEnabledByID-->>PluginCLI: return toggle result or error
  PluginCLI-->>User: print text or redacted JSON result

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 4d8aa

Enabling and disabling plugins works as designed. The new docs have two gaps to fix: the example manifest is invalid and cannot be installed, and the docs should say a running TUI needs a restart to apply a toggle.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		[ #790 ] The CLI adds enable and disable, --user, --json, no-op messages, and project precedence. Tests cover toggling, lookup, and permissions. However, setEnabledLocked passes `info.Mode().Per…	Preserve supported special mode bits as well as permission bits when rewriting plugin.json. Add an automated test for mode preservation where the platform supports those bits.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 45.71% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the new CLI commands that enable and disable plugins through plugin.json.
Out of Scope Changes check		[ #790 ] The CLI, manifest editing, lock coordination, hash refresh, tests, and documentation support plugin toggling. The ErrNotInstalled comment supports the shared lookup error. No unrelated chan…
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.

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Explanation

[ #790 ] The CLI, manifest editing, lock coordination, hash refresh, tests, and documentation support plugin toggling. The ErrNotInstalled comment supports the shared lookup error. No unrelated change is evident.

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Explanation

[ #790 ] The CLI adds enable and disable, --user, --json, no-op messages, and project precedence. Tests cover toggling, lookup, and permissions. However, setEnabledLocked passes info.Mode().Perm() to the atomic writer. This strips setuid, setgid, and sticky mode bits when the manifest is rewritten, so it does not preserve the full existing file mode.

Resolution

Preserve supported special mode bits as well as permission bits when rewriting plugin.json. Add an automated test for mode preservation where the platform supports those bits.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 45.71% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 35 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Finishing Touches

Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create a new PR

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[coderabbitai]

Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

internal/cli/extensions_test.go (1)

338-395: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Solid happy-path/usage-error coverage; consider adding a --user and no-op-message case.

Coverage for --user targeting and the "was already %s" no-op branch currently only exists at the plugins package level (enabled_test.go), not at the CLI layer. A quick additional case exercising zero plugins disable <id> --user against dual user/project roots, and re-running disable on an already-disabled plugin to check the "was already disabled" message, would close that gap.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@internal/cli/extensions_test.go` around lines 338 - 395, The
TestRunPluginsEnableDisable CLI test only covers project-scoped changes and the
initial disable message. Extend it with separate user and project plugin roots,
invoke the disable command with --user to verify the user manifest is updated
without changing the project manifest, then repeat disable on the
already-disabled plugin and assert the “was already disabled” no-op message.

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@internal/plugins/enabled.go`:
- Around line 89-110: Introduce or reuse a sentinel error for the missing-plugin
case in SetEnabledByID and wrap it with the plugin ID context. In
internal/plugins/enabled.go:89-110, update the !ok return; in
internal/cli/extensions.go:122-128, replace strings.Contains(err.Error(), "is
not installed") with errors.Is against that sentinel, adding the required
import. Preserve distinct handling for the empty-ID validation error.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/cli/extensions_test.go`:
- Around line 338-395: The TestRunPluginsEnableDisable CLI test only covers
project-scoped changes and the initial disable message. Extend it with separate
user and project plugin roots, invoke the disable command with --user to verify
the user manifest is updated without changing the project manifest, then repeat
disable on the already-disabled plugin and assert the “was already disabled”
no-op message.

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[Ayush7614]

@coderabbitai review the latest commits and changes

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@Ayush7614 I see you've tagged me but there's no specific request in your comment — could you clarify what you'd like me to do? For example, I can:

• Review the PR changes (internal/cli/extensions.go, internal/plugins/enabled.go, and their tests)
• Answer a question about the plugin enable/disable implementation
• Help with something else specific

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@Ayush7614 Reviewed the latest commits. Overall the implementation is solid — errors.Is-based error handling, atomic manifest writes (temp file + rename in the same directory), and the --user/--json flag plumbing all look correct, and the new test coverage (TestSetEnabledTogglesManifestAndIsIdempotent, TestSetEnabledByIDRespectsUserOnlyFilter, TestSetEnabledByIDMissingPlugin, TestRunPluginsEnableDisable, TestRunPluginsDisableUserIgnoresProject) exercises the important paths (idempotency, project-vs-user precedence, missing plugin, JSON output).

One functional concern worth fixing before merge:

File permission regression in internal/plugins/enabled.go (SetEnabled, Line 83)

if err := os.WriteFile(tempPath, append(data, '\n'), 0o600); err != nil {

This hardcodes 0o600 for the rewritten plugin.json, but every other manifest write in this codebase (e.g., internal/plugins/install.go Line 242, and test fixtures) uses 0o644. Since SetEnabled replaces the manifest via os.Rename, the first enable/disable toggle will silently downgrade a project-tracked plugin.json from 0o644 to 0o600 — which could break group/CI read access or diverge from the mode a user/tool originally set, and it's inconsistent with the rest of the plugin file-writing code.

Suggested fix: preserve the original file's mode instead of hardcoding it, e.g.:

mode := os.FileMode(0o644)
if info, statErr := os.Stat(resolved); statErr == nil {
    mode = info.Mode().Perm()
}
if err := os.WriteFile(tempPath, append(data, '\n'), mode); err != nil {
    return false, err
}

Everything else — the ErrNotInstalled sentinel/wrapping, FindByID/SetEnabledByID composition, CLI flag parsing, help text, and JSON/text output branching on result.Changed — looks correct and consistent with the rest of the CLI.

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[Vasanthdev2004]

Nice feature — the atomic manifest rewrite, idempotency, and project/user precedence all look right, and the new CLI tests pass on my end. One blocker: TestSetEnabledPreservesManifestMode asserts a 0644 mode after os.Chmod, but on Windows os.Stat reports 0666 regardless of chmod, so it fails on windows-latest (which is in the CI matrix and runs go test ./...). Guard that test with a runtime.GOOS != "windows" skip (or drop the exact-bits assertion) and I think this is good to go.

[Ayush7614]

Thanks for the review, @Vasanthdev2004!

Addressed the Windows CI blocker in dae3ef8: TestSetEnabledPreservesManifestMode now skips on windows-latest since os.Stat reports 0666 regardless of chmod there.

The mode-preservation behavior is still covered on Unix via the existing assertion. Please take another look when you have a moment.

[Ayush7614]

@Vasanthdev2004 Merged latest main in e29fddc and cleared the conflict with #773 (zero plugins info):

• docs/EXTENDING.md now documents info, disable, and enable
• Shared a single plugins.ErrNotInstalled sentinel used by both info and enable/disable

Earlier review items from this thread:

• CodeRabbit: ErrNotInstalled + --user / already-disabled CLI coverage — done in 7a1a5b5
• @Vasanthdev2004: Windows mode assertion skip — done in dae3ef8 (windows-latest CI was green on that commit)

Also opened #790 and linked it via Closes #790. Please add issue-approved when the scope looks good, and re-review if you’re happy with the Windows fix + merge.

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internal/cli/extensions.go (1)

143-147: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Redact the text output before printing the manifest path.

result.ManifestPath is emitted directly here, while the existing list and JSON paths go through redaction. In CI logs this can expose local usernames or home-directory paths. Redact the formatted message before writing it, and add a text-mode test covering the path.

Proposed fix

+	message := ""
 	if result.Changed {
-		if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "Plugin %s is now %s in %s.\n", result.ID, state, result.ManifestPath); err != nil {
-			return exitCrash
-		}
-	} else if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "Plugin %s was already %s in %s.\n", result.ID, state, result.ManifestPath); err != nil {
+		message = fmt.Sprintf("Plugin %s is now %s in %s.", result.ID, state, result.ManifestPath)
+	} else {
+		message = fmt.Sprintf("Plugin %s was already %s in %s.", result.ID, state, result.ManifestPath)
+	}
+	if _, err := fmt.Fprintln(stdout, redaction.RedactString(message, redaction.Options{})); err != nil {
 		return exitCrash
 	}

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In `@internal/cli/extensions.go` around lines 143 - 147, Update the text output
branches in the extension command around result.Changed to redact the fully
formatted message, including result.ManifestPath, before writing it to stdout.
Reuse the existing redaction mechanism used by the list and JSON paths, and add
a text-mode test verifying sensitive path components are removed from both
changed and already-state output.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@internal/cli/extensions.go`:
- Around line 143-147: Update the text output branches in the extension command
around result.Changed to redact the fully formatted message, including
result.ManifestPath, before writing it to stdout. Reuse the existing redaction
mechanism used by the list and JSON paths, and add a text-mode test verifying
sensitive path components are removed from both changed and already-state
output.

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[Vasanthdev2004]

Approving. The key behaviour is right: disabling a plugin actually stops its components loading rather than just hiding it from a listing, which was the thing worth verifying. The state file is written atomically and a missing or corrupt one degrades safely, and the Windows test-mode fix that was the last blocker is in and that leg is green.

A few minor notes for later rather than now: concurrent toggles from two processes are not serialized (last writer wins, which is fine for a CLI toggle but worth knowing), and disabling a plugin mid-session takes effect on the next activation rather than immediately. Neither is a correctness problem for how this is used.

Verification note: the go toolchain is blocked on my machine by Smart App Control, so this is a source review; CI is green.

Thanks for the quick turnaround on the Windows leg. LGTM.

[Ayush7614]

cc: @kevincodex1

[gnanam1990]

Verdict

Changes requested. The command surface is well built and the feature is wanted, but the manifest write in internal/plugins/enabled.go re-implements — less safely — machinery this same package already owns and already uses.

Reviewed at e29fddc, base d9b882e (origin/main at 097c265). Parent issue #790 carries issue-approved.

What I verified

• The tests are load-bearing. I stubbed out the publish step so SetEnabled returns changed=true without ever writing the manifest, and two tests caught it with the un-toggled file printed in the failure:

  --- FAIL: TestRunPluginsEnableDisable
      extensions_test.go:376: manifest not disabled: { "schemaVersion": 1, "id": "zero.demo", ... }
  --- FAIL: TestRunPluginsDisableUserIgnoresProject
      extensions_test.go:447: user manifest not disabled: { ..., "enabled": true }
  

• go vet ./internal/plugins/ ./internal/cli/ clean; go test ./internal/plugins/ -count=1 passes.

• Merged origin/main into the branch: auto-merge clean, go build ./... succeeds on the merged tree.

• Confirmed the orphan-temp-file concern does not apply: discovery joins the exact filename at internal/plugins/plugins.go:253 (filepath.Join(pluginDir, "plugin.json")), so a stranded plugin.json.tmp-* is never mistaken for a manifest.

• Ran on darwin/arm64 from a non-/tmp checkout.

Blocking

1. SetEnabled takes no lock, while every other mutator in this package does. — internal/plugins/enabled.go:41

   Install acquires installtxn.Lock(dir) at internal/plugins/install.go:151, and Remove acquires it at :203. Both then mutate under it. SetEnabled performs a read-modify-write on a file inside that same tree with no lock at all, and installtxn.WriteFileAtomically explicitly documents that responsibility as the caller's:

   // WriteFileAtomically publishes data by renaming a complete sibling temporary
   // file over path. The caller is responsible for any surrounding transaction
   // lock.

   installtxn.Lock is a real cross-process lock — flock on Unix (lock_unix.go), LockFileEx on Windows (lock_windows.go) — which matters here because this repo runs CLI, TUI and daemon against the same state. The concrete failure: zero plugins disable X reads the manifest, zero plugins remove X then takes the lock and tears the directory down, and the first process's rename recreates plugin.json inside the removed plugin's directory. The result is a manifest that discovery will load with no corresponding entry in plugins.lock — precisely the inconsistency the lock exists to prevent.

2. The atomic write is hand-rolled and is weaker than the helper this package already calls. — internal/plugins/enabled.go:78-88

   internal/plugins/install.go:271 already calls installtxn.WriteFileAtomically. The new code writes its own temp-file-plus-os.Rename instead, and differs in two ways that matter:

   • No Sync. installtxn.WriteFileAtomically calls temp.Sync() before closing. Without it, a crash between the write and the rename can publish a truncated or zero-length plugin.json. That file then fails json.Unmarshal, and the plugin drops out of discovery entirely — a worse outcome than either enabled or disabled.
   • os.Rename instead of replaceFile. On Windows the package uses MoveFileEx(..., MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING|MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH) (internal/installtxn/lock_windows.go:29). Go's os.Rename does not pass MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH, so the durability guarantee the package deliberately chose is lost on the platform it was chosen for. The existence of a platform-specific replaceFile is the signal that plain os.Rename was already judged insufficient here.

   Both resolve together: take installtxn.Lock on the plugins root, then publish with installtxn.WriteFileAtomically(resolved, append(data, '\n'), mode). That also deletes the os.Getpid()/UnixNano() temp-name construction, which is only there because the helper was not used.

3. Toggling rewrites the manifest with its fields reordered. — internal/plugins/enabled.go:71

   json.MarshalIndent over a map[string]any emits keys in sorted order, so a single zero plugins disable scrambles a hand-authored file. Measured against the patched build:

   BEFORE                       AFTER
   {                            {
     "name": "demo",              "author": "a",
     "version": "1.0.0",          "description": "z last",
     "description": "z last",     "enabled": false,
     "author": "a",               "name": "demo",
     "enabled": true              "version": "1.0.0"
   }                            }
   

   plugin.json is a file users edit by hand and commit. Reordering it on every toggle produces diff noise unrelated to the change, and for a project plugin under ./.zero/plugins that noise lands in the repository. Preserving order needs either an ordered decode (json.Decoder with Token()) or a targeted textual edit of the single enabled field rather than a full re-marshal. If that is judged too costly for the value, say so in the PR description and in docs/EXTENDING.md so the churn is at least documented rather than surprising — but it should be a stated decision, not a side effect.

Non-blocking

• Permission fallback widens on a stat failure. — internal/plugins/enabled.go:75-78. When os.Stat returns an error the mode silently falls back to 0o644. A manifest that was 0o600 would be republished world-readable. os.ReadFile has already succeeded by that point so the window is narrow, but the repo's convention on security-adjacent state is to fail closed rather than pick a permissive default — returning the stat error would be more consistent. Using installtxn.WriteFileAtomically does not fix this by itself; the mode decision stays yours.
• Symlinked manifests are replaced rather than followed. — internal/plugins/enabled.go:47. filepath.Abs does not resolve symlinks, so if plugin.json is a symlink the rename replaces the link with a regular file. Probably out of scope, but filepath.EvalSymlinks is a one-line guard if you want it.
• Default target when a plugin exists in both scopes. — internal/cli/extensions.go:127. Without --user, LoadOptions{ExcludeProject: false} means project precedence wins, so zero plugins disable X writes the project manifest when both exist. The command does print result.ManifestPath afterwards, which mitigates it, but writePluginsToggleHelp describes only what --user does and not what the default does. One extra line there would remove the ambiguity.
• No test asserts unrelated manifest fields survive. — internal/plugins/enabled_test.go. The four tests cover toggling, idempotence, the --user filter, the missing-plugin error and file mode. None reads the manifest back and checks that name, version, commands and the permission block are byte-identical apart from enabled. Given that the implementation round-trips the whole document through a map, that is the assertion most worth having — and it is the one that would have caught finding 3.

Not covered by this PR

• Nothing invalidates a running daemon's or TUI's in-memory plugin set after a toggle. zero plugins disable X updates the manifest; whether an already-running session notices is untested and probably a separate issue rather than this PR's job — but worth confirming the expectation before merge.

Not verified

• Windows. TestSetEnabledPreservesManifestMode is skipped there (noted in the PR description, which is the right call), but the rename path is the part that actually diverges and it has no coverage on that platform either way. I did not cross-compile or run the Windows path.
• I did not exercise zero plugins enable/disable end-to-end against a real installed plugin; the verification above is through the package and CLI tests.

The CLI layer itself I have no complaints about: flag parsing, the --json path through redaction.RedactValue, the ErrNotInstalled mapping to a usage error rather than a crash, and the already-enabled/now-enabled distinction are all handled properly. Rework the write in enabled.go around installtxn and this becomes an approve.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

• [P1] Rebase onto current main and re-run the affected checks
  docs/EXTENDING.md:290
  The PR head is based on d9b882e, while live main is now 1b5db17 (656 files and two releases ahead) and changes both docs/EXTENDING.md and internal/cli/extensions_test.go. The tree merge is mechanically clean, but the repository's current contribution guidance makes a stale base a hard blocker. Please rebase, retain the current-target changes, and revalidate the resolved diff.

Findings

• [P1] Serialize and durably publish the manifest mutation
  internal/plugins/enabled.go:43
SetEnabledByID resolves and reads a manifest, then SetEnabled publishes it without the installtxn.Lock used by Install and Remove. The operation therefore does not serialize its read-modify-write cycle with the other commands that own the same user-plugin directory and plugins.lock. For example: a toggle reads the old manifest; an install acquires the lock, swaps in a newly staged plugin and writes its new hash; then the toggle writes its already-read JSON to the now-replaced path. The new plugin's manifest is overwritten by the old one while the lock entry still describes the new tree. The hand-rolled temporary-file path also omits the Sync and Windows write-through behavior in installtxn.WriteFileAtomically, so an interruption can publish incomplete manifest bytes and make the plugin fail JSON discovery.

  Address the root cause by making enablement participate in the existing transaction boundary: derive the selected plugin's root, acquire its installtxn.Lock before the final lookup/read, and publish via installtxn.WriteFileAtomically while that lock is held. Keep the lock scope limited to the established plugin root and retain the current precedence behavior. Add a deterministic concurrency test that pauses an install between staging and commit, then proves a simultaneous toggle cannot overwrite the installed manifest or desynchronize its lock entry; also cover a writer failure/interruption path.

• [P1] Do not corrupt extension-defined integer values while toggling
  internal/plugins/enabled.go:57
  The loader deliberately accepts unknown manifest fields, but this command decodes the entire document into map[string]any. Go's default JSON decoder represents each number there as float64; when the map is re-marshaled, integers outside IEEE-754's exact range are rounded. A valid extension value such as 9007199254740993 is consequently written back as 9007199254740992 when the user only asks to disable the plugin. This permanently changes configuration the command neither owns nor validates.

  The root cause is a lossy whole-document round trip. Preserve numeric tokens for every untouched field—at minimum decode with json.Decoder.UseNumber before changing enabled, rather than json.Unmarshal into any; a targeted representation-preserving edit is also acceptable if it preserves the manifest's existing schema behavior. Add a regression test containing an unknown nested field with 9007199254740993, toggle both directions, and assert that the value remains exactly the same after each write.

[Vasanthdev2004]

@Ayush7614 checking in on this one. I approved it at 7d55f568 and it has not moved since 2026-08-28. It is still mergeable against current main and its checks are green, so as far as I can tell it is only waiting on a second maintainer rather than on you.

Saying so explicitly in case it looked like the ball was in your court. If you are still around for it, nothing is needed from you; I will chase the merge side. If you have moved on, tell me and I will note the issue as open for someone else rather than leave it looking claimed.

Same question on #693, which is in the same state.

[euxarist]

Toggling enabled in plugin.json via temp-file write plus rename, redacted error output, --user to skip project plugins, redacted --json output, and no new execution surface since the loader semantics are unchanged. Clean.

[Vasanthdev2004]

@kevincodex1 same as #796: nothing from the author since 28 August, and no reply to my 12 September check-in. gnanam's 29 July and jatmn's 28 August change requests are still open, and the branch still merges cleanly with main. Close it, or leave it for someone to take over?

[Ayush7614]

@kevincodex1 same as #796: nothing from the author since 28 August, and no reply to my 12 September check-in. gnanam's 29 July and jatmn's 28 August change requests are still open, and the branch still merges cleanly with main. Close it, or leave it for someone to take over?

Thanks for following up, and apologies for the long silence. @Vasanthdev2004 I’m still interested in getting this PR merged and would like to continue working on it.

I’ll address the outstanding review feedback, particularly the transaction locking, atomic manifest writes, and preserving numeric values in plugin.json, then rebase on the latest main and rerun the relevant tests.

Please keep the PR open for now. I appreciate everyone’s patience and the detailed reviews!

[Vasanthdev2004]

Thanks, Ayush, good to have you back on this one too. It stays open. @kevincodex1, same as #796: no decision needed here after all. When you've pushed, ping me and I'll re-review. gnanam's and jatmn's reviews are the ones to answer.

[Ayush7614]

Rebased onto current main (ef4da132) and reworked the manifest write around the existing install transaction. Head is now 7841cc99 in two commits (feature + review fixes). All change-request findings are addressed; details below.

Rebase (P1, @jatmn)

e29fddc → 7841cc99, now based on ef4da132. The rebase also deduplicated ErrNotInstalled, which upstream info.go now owns (the branch still declared its own copy after #773 landed).

Serialize and durably publish the mutation (P1, @jatmn; blockers 1–2, @gnanam1990)

• SetEnabledByID now derives the selected plugin's install root, acquires the same cross-process installtxn.Lock that Install/Remove take, re-resolves the plugin under that lock, and only then reads the manifest. If the winning root changes while the lock was pending (precedence moved), it retries against the new root; if the plugin was removed under the lock it returns ErrNotInstalled instead of recreating plugin.json in a torn-down directory.
• Publishing goes through installtxn.WriteFileAtomically while the lock is held, so the write gets the Sync + Windows replaceFile (write-through) behavior, and the hand-rolled temp-file path is gone. The lock scope stays limited to the established plugin root.
• A plugins.lock entry whose hash still matched the on-disk tree before the edit is refreshed to the post-toggle hash; pre-existing drift is left alone rather than absorbed. So a serialized install-then-toggle sequence leaves the lock entry describing the tree that is actually installed, and zero plugins info does not report drift caused by our own toggle.
• New tests (all deterministic, none OS-skipped):
  • TestSetEnabledByIDSynchronizesWithStagedInstallCommit — stages a replacement tree with the same primitives Install uses, holds the root lock as an in-flight install does, proves the toggle cannot complete meanwhile, commits the staged tree + lock entry under the lock, then asserts the toggle applied to the newly installed manifest (not bytes read before it) and that the lock hash equals hashTree of the final directory.
  • TestSetEnabledByIDWaitsForInstallRootLock — the toggle cannot complete while the install-root lock is held.
  • TestSetEnabledByIDRefreshesCleanLockEntry — refresh when clean, no refresh (drift preserved) when the tree was already edited.
  • TestSetEnabledPublishFailureLeavesManifestIntact — writer-failure path: read-only plugin dir, toggle errors, manifest stays byte-identical.
• Verified against the pre-fix code: the two lock tests complete without waiting, and the refresh test observes an unrefreshed hash.

Representation-preserving toggle (P1, @jatmn; blocker 3, @gnanam1990)

Instead of decode → map[string]any → MarshalIndent, the toggle now walks the token stream (json.Decoder.Token() + InputOffset()) and edits only the bytes of the top-level enabled value — or inserts "enabled": … before the closing brace when absent, mirroring the document's whitespace style. Field order, formatting, and numeric literals are untouched; null still counts as enabled, matching optionalBool.

TestSetEnabledByIDPreservesManifestBytes uses an unknown nested "maxBytes": 9007199254740993, toggles both directions, and asserts byte-for-byte equality with the original except the enabled value, plus the loader seeing each state. On the old code it fails with 9007199254740993 → 9007199254740992 and sorted keys, so the test is load-bearing.

Smaller items

• os.Stat failure now fails closed instead of falling back to 0644.
• TestSetEnabledByIDInsertsMissingField, TestToggleEnabledManifestFormattingEdges, and TestToggleEnabledManifestRejectsMalformedInput cover insert/replace, CRLF, compact/pretty, nested/duplicate keys, and non-boolean values.
• CLI: text output goes through redaction.RedactString (TestRunPluginsToggleTextOutputIsRedacted uses a secret-shaped directory name and proves the path is masked in both message branches), an empty plugin id is a usage error instead of a crash exit, and plugins enable|disable --help documents the default project-over-user precedence.
• The CLI toggle tests now redirect XDG_CONFIG_HOME/HOME so they don't read a developer's real plugin roots.

Two deliberate non-changes:

• Symlinked plugin.json is still replaced rather than followed. A naive EvalSymlinks before the write is a check-to-use race, and a proper handle-relative fix is a larger change — leaving it out of scope, as noted.
• Daemon/TUI invalidation after a toggle remains untested and is a separate issue.

Validation on 7841cc99: make fmt-check, go vet ./..., go test ./..., -race on internal/plugins + internal/cli, go run ./cmd/zero-release build + smoke, make vulncheck, git diff HEAD --check — all clean.

@jatmn @gnanam1990 — could you take another look? @Vasanthdev2004 pinging you on the push as requested.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Re-checked at 7841cc9. The toggle now takes the install-root lock and publishes through WriteFileAtomically. The edit is byte-level, and TestSetEnabledByIDPreservesManifestBytes checks that 9007199254740993 survives it. Two of the fixes fail their tests when taken back out: without the lock, the toggle completes while an install holds it (TestSetEnabledByIDWaitsForInstallRootLock), and skipping the lock-entry refresh fails TestSetEnabledByIDRefreshesCleanLockEntry. TestSetEnabledPublishFailureLeavesManifestIntact skips on Windows, so I couldn't run that one here.

One small gap, not blocking: nothing pins the second FindByID under the lock. With it replaced by the lookup taken before the lock, every test still passes. The staged install swaps the tree in place at the same manifest path, and a removal makes the read fail anyway. A case where the plugin is removed while the toggle waits, asserting ErrNotInstalled, would cover it.

internal/plugins and internal/installtxn pass under -race on Windows, the plugin CLI tests pass, vet is clean for windows, linux and darwin, and CI is 10/10. Approving; jatmn's and gnanam's requests are the ones left to clear.

[Ayush7614]

cc: @kevincodex1

[Vasanthdev2004]

@jatmn your 28 August request is still open here, but Ayush pushed the fixes on 17 October (7841cc99): the toggle now takes the install-root lock, re-resolves the plugin under it, and publishes through WriteFileAtomically. I re-checked it on the 19th and approved, and checks are green. Could you take another look when you have a minute?

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Make the example manifest valid.

The example lacks "schemaVersion": 1 and a name for its skill. The loader rejects it, so the new toggle examples cannot find this plugin. Add both required fields. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the example manifest in the documentation to include the required
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[jatmn]

On the outside-diff CodeRabbit finding for docs/EXTENDING.md:327/339 (example plugin.json missing schemaVersion and a skill name):

The finding is accurate. Run against a scratch project, the documented manifest is rejected with fieldPath=schemaVersion. With "schemaVersion": 1 added, it is rejected with fieldPath=skills.0.name. With both added, it loads and toggles.

It is not changed in this PR, though. The example is identical at this branch's merge-base and on current main, where zero plugins add, list, and info already fail against it the same way. This PR only adds the enable/disable lines next to it. To keep this PR focused, I left the example alone; it should get its own small docs fix against main.

[jatmn]

Superseded by #1202, which carries this branch's final head (87ecb28) on a branch in this repository instead of a fork.

@Ayush7614, thank you for this work. Your two commits (5802229, c4cf774) keep you as their author in #1202, and a squash merge will credit you as co-author. Two follow-up commits sit on top: installtxn.Recover on the toggle path, and a docs/help note on when a toggle takes effect. The review history stays here on #693.