📅 2025-12-28 — Session: Refactored Legacy Plugins for Unified Interface
🕒 01:00–01:20
🏷️ Labels: Plugin Development, Python, Automation, Error Management
📂 Project: Dev
Session Goal
The session aimed to refactor legacy plugins to ensure a unified interface and improve error handling.
Key Activities
- Reviewed guidelines for conducting plugin hardening sessions, focusing on error management and productivity.
- Outlined structured queries for plugin status checks, including dataclass checks, smoke tests, and runbook validations.
- Developed a detailed rewrite plan for legacy plugins to address incompatibilities with the existing runner.
- Differentiated between ‘smoke’ and ‘runbook’ automation contracts to guide design decisions.
- Implemented various Python scripts for file handling, including reading and displaying plugin code, checking file existence and size, and creating directories.
- Updated the runner script for enhanced plugin API integration.
- Conducted a comprehensive rewrite of the deterministic runbook plugin, enforcing a new strict plugin contract.
Achievements
- Successfully outlined a plan for rewriting legacy plugins, ensuring a unified interface and improved error handling.
- Implemented and tested various Python scripts for plugin management and file handling.
- Updated the runner script to better integrate with the plugin API.
Pending Tasks
- Complete the implementation of the rewritten legacy plugins.
- Further test the new plugin contracts to ensure compatibility and performance.