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Plugins

Add tools, panels, and commands to your session by installing plugins from the marketplace.

Plugins extend your session with new panels, toolbar buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and commands. Install one from the marketplace in a couple of clicks.

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Browsing the plugin marketplace and enabling a plugin, which adds a new panel to the session

What plugins add

A plugin can show up in a few places once it is enabled:

  • Panels open as new panes beside your terminals: a file browser, an event log, a status overlay.
  • Toolbar buttons add quick actions, sometimes with a badge counter (for example, unread notifications).
  • Keyboard shortcuts trigger a plugin action and appear next to taiku's own shortcuts in the command palette.
  • Shell commands let a plugin react when you type a named command in the terminal.

Each plugin runs in its own sandbox and can only do what its listed permissions allow, so it never touches your other plugins or your browser data.

Install a plugin

  1. Open Settings (toolbar, or Ctrl+Shift+S), expand Integrations, and pick the Plugins tab. You see it when you are the session's admin.
  2. In Browse, look through the listings. Each one shows the name, author, what it does, and the permissions it asks for.
  3. Click Install to add it to your session.

The plugin loads right away and its panels and buttons appear immediately. Everyone in the session gets it, and it stays installed across reloads.

Manage your plugins

The Installed tab lists everything in the session. From there you can open a plugin's Details to review its permissions, switch it Off, or Uninstall it. Removing a plugin takes its panels and buttons out of the session at once.

Some plugins can act on outside apps like GitHub, Linear, or Slack. Those need a one-time account connection before they work. See Connecting accounts.

Build your own

If you want to create a plugin instead of installing one, the developer guides walk through manifests, panels, permissions, and loading your work-in-progress straight from a URL.

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