📅 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.