From 766e8251805ef41199beee2d6c9f89fa733d0690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yash <yashkhatri88540@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:56:48 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: support multi-word plugin search

---
 src/plugin-catalog.test.ts | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/plugin-catalog.ts      | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/plugin-catalog.test.ts b/src/plugin-catalog.test.ts
index eedb6dff..73995037 100644
--- a/src/plugin-catalog.test.ts
+++ b/src/plugin-catalog.test.ts
@@ -119,4 +119,39 @@ describe('plugin catalog', () => {
     expect(result.plugins.map((plugin) => plugin.name)).toEqual(['flights']);
     expect(result.errors).toEqual([{ sourceId: 'bad', manifestUrl: 'https://bad.test/webcmd-plugin.json', message: 'network failed' }]);
   });
+
+
+
+  it('matches multi-word plugin searches while requiring all terms', async () => {
+  const catalog: PluginCatalog = {
+    version: 1,
+    sources: [
+      {
+        id: 'test',
+        source: 'github:test/repo',
+        manifestUrl: 'https://test.test/webcmd-plugin.json',
+      },
+    ],
+  };
+
+  const fetchJson = async () => ({
+    plugins: {
+      hackernews: {
+        path: 'plugins/hackernews',
+        description: 'Tools for technology discussions',
+      },
+    },
+  });
+
+  for (const query of ['hacker news', 'hacker-news', 'hackernews']) {
+    const result = await searchCatalogPlugins(catalog, { query, fetchJson });
+    expect(result.plugins.map((plugin) => plugin.name)).toEqual(['hackernews']);
+  }
+
+  const negative = await searchCatalogPlugins(catalog, {
+    query: 'hacker twitter',
+    fetchJson,
+  });
+  expect(negative.plugins).toEqual([]);
 });
+});
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diff --git a/src/plugin-catalog.ts b/src/plugin-catalog.ts
index c8b009f3..90144303 100644
--- a/src/plugin-catalog.ts
+++ b/src/plugin-catalog.ts
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ export function flattenPluginManifest(source: PluginCatalogSource, manifest: Plu
   }];
 }
 
+function normalizeSearchText(value: string): string {
+  return value.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '');
+}
+
 export async function searchCatalogPlugins(
   catalog: PluginCatalog,
   options: { query?: string; fetchJson?: FetchJson } = {},
@@ -150,9 +154,19 @@ export async function searchCatalogPlugins(
     }
   }));
 
-  const query = options.query?.trim().toLowerCase();
-  const filtered = query
-    ? plugins.filter((plugin) => `${plugin.name} ${plugin.description ?? ''}`.toLowerCase().includes(query))
+  const query = options.query?.trim();
+  const tokens = query
+  ? query.split(/\s+/).map(normalizeSearchText).filter(Boolean)
+  : [];
+
+  const filtered = tokens.length
+    ? plugins.filter((plugin) => {
+        const haystack = normalizeSearchText(
+          `${plugin.name} ${plugin.description ?? ''}`,
+        );
+
+        return tokens.every((token) => haystack.includes(token));
+      })
     : plugins;
 
   filtered.sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name));