plugin-example-kind

The reference kind-class plugin (kind:examplekind) — a plugin that serves a whole entity kind, recognized and connected before config decode.

A kind: examplekind entity whose plugin is not compiled in is recognized at parse time, the plugin is connected before decode, and the authored body lands in the parsed kinds. The plugin also serves a deep OpValidate check: an authored marker of INVALID is rejected with an error diagnostic.

The plugin is out-of-process only (not listed in compiled_plugins:), which is exactly the point: it is the witness that the loader can recognize and connect a kind plugin it was not built with.

Compose the plugin candy, then author the kind:

- '@github.com/opencharly/plugin-example-kind/candy/plugin-example-kind:<tag>'

examplekind:
  marker: hello

• candy/plugin-example-kind/ — the plugin module: plugin.go (the provider + NewProvider()/NewMeta() + OpLoad/OpValidate), schema/examplekind.cue (the self-contained #ExamplekindInput), cmd/serve/main.go.
• charly.yml — the root project manifest (discover: candy).
• .github/workflows/tag-on-merge.yml — CalVer tag + CHANGELOG/ on merge.

• Owning skill: /charly-internals:plugin — the plugin/provider model (incl. the kind class and parse-time prescan). This candy carries no skill: entity of its own; the gap is tracked in opencharly/opencharly#291.
• opencharly/charly — the charly CLI.