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Plugin configuration ​

Accept configuration supplied through cordis.yml.

Define the Config type ​

Export a Config type and a same-named Schemastery schema. Put defaults directly on the schema fields:

ts
import type { Context } from '@deepseek-ai/cordis'
import Schema from '@deepseek-ai/schemastery'

export const name = 'my-plugin'

export interface Config {
  greeting: string
  maxRetries: number
  verbose?: boolean
}

export const Config: Schema<Config> = Schema.object({
  greeting: Schema.string().default('Hello'),
  maxRetries: Schema.number().default(3),
  verbose: Schema.boolean().default(false),
})

export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
  console.log(config.greeting)  // User value or schema default.
}

Add the configuration to the inserted local plugin row in scratch-plugin/cordis.yml:

yaml
- insert:
    - id: hello
      name: './src/my-plugin.ts'
      config:
        greeting: 'Hi there'
        maxRetries: 5

When loading the plugin, Cordis uses the exported schema to validate configuration and fill defaults. Do not export a plain object as Config; it does not implement the Standard Schema interface required by Cordis.

Schema validation ​

Use Schemastery to express stricter validation:

ts
import type { Context } from '@deepseek-ai/cordis'
import Schema from '@deepseek-ai/schemastery'

export const name = 'validated-plugin'

export interface Config {
  apiKey: string
  timeout: number
  mode: 'fast' | 'accurate'
}

export const Config = Schema.object({
  apiKey: Schema.string().required(),
  timeout: Schema.number().default(30000),
  mode: Schema.union(['fast', 'accurate']).default('fast'),
})

export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
  // config is validated and type-safe.
}

The schema runs while the plugin loads. Invalid configuration fails the load with an actionable error.

Design principles ​

Do not hardcode tunable values ​

Harness requires anything that two deployments may want to set differently to be a configuration field.

ts
// Wrong: hardcoded timeout.
const TIMEOUT = 30000

// Correct: configurable.
export interface Config {
  timeoutMs: number  // Defaults to 30000.
}

The test is whether cordis.yml can change the value without a code edit.

Fail loudly on invalid configuration ​

Express self-contained constraints in the schema so invalid configuration fails while the plugin loads. References to services or registered resources require dependency injection; the services tutorial introduces that contract.

Work with HMR ​

A configuration edit hot-replaces the plugin: the framework unloads the old instance and loads a new one. Because registrations are effects and clean themselves up, replacement does not retain the old instance's registrations.

Next steps ​