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Monorepo support for OpenCLI plugin installation and discovery

Technical Positioning
Enterprise-grade tool integration for internal automation teams and AI agents
SaaS Insight & Market Implications
The lack of monorepo support for OpenCLI plugins represents a significant barrier for enterprise adoption and internal automation teams. The current flat plugin structure forces a one-repo-per-plugin model, which is inefficient for managing related plugins, shared utilities, and consistent development workflows. This limitation directly contradicts OpenCLI's positioning as a "universal CLI Hub and AI-native runtime" for agents, as large organizations heavily rely on monorepos for tool management. Addressing this is critical for OpenCLI to move beyond simple community plugins and penetrate the more complex, integrated environments of corporate automation.
Proprietary Technical Taxonomy
monorepo plugin installation plugin discovery ~/.opencli/plugins/ github:user/repo shared helpers runtime utilities linting

Raw Developer Origin & Technical Request

Source Icon GitHub Issue Mar 26, 2026
Repo: jackwener/opencli
Support monorepo-friendly plugin installation and discovery

# Support monorepo-friendly plugin installation and discovery

## Summary

OpenCLI plugin installation and discovery currently work best when each plugin lives in its own standalone repository and is installed into a flat directory under `~/.opencli/plugins//`.

This works well for simple community plugins, but it becomes limiting for teams that want to maintain multiple related plugins in a single monorepo.

## Current behavior

From the current implementation and docs:

- `opencli plugin install` only supports:
- `github:user/repo`
- `github.com/user/repo`
- Installed plugins are expected to live in:
- `~/.opencli/plugins//`
- Plugin discovery treats each subdirectory under `~/.opencli/plugins/` as one plugin
- Files are scanned flat inside that plugin directory
- Nested plugin directories are not discovered

This means a monorepo like:

```text
automation-plugins/
packages/
opencli-plugin-team/
opencli-plugin-kim/
```

cannot be used directly with the current install/discovery model.

## Why this matters

For internal automation teams, monorepos are often the most practical way to manage multiple OpenCLI plugins because they allow:

- shared helpers and runtime utilities
- shared docs and setup scripts
- consistent linting / testing / release flow
- cross-plugin workflows, for example one plugin reading data from one system and another plugin writing to another system

Without monorepo support, users need to:

- keep one repo per plugin,...

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haoyan-yam • Mar 30, 2026
> 继续排查后,结论更新一下: > > 目前看,这个问题主要集中在 `MP_WXS_*` 这类公众号条目,不像是单纯的登录失效。 > > 现在 `weread shelf` 还能显示,是因为私有 API 失效后会回退到网页本地缓存;但 `weread...
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