Plugin System

Buildware-Tools has a built-in plugin system that lets you install community-made plugins directly from GitHub, without modifying the tool itself.

Installed plugins appear in the menu on Page 2, slots 41 to 50 (maximum 10 plugins visible at a time).

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Installing a Plugin

1. Open Buildware-Tools and go to Plugin Manager
2. Select Install Plugin
3. Optionally open the plugin list at https://github.com/topics/buildware-plugin
4. Paste the GitHub URL of the plugin repository
5. The tool will automatically:

• Verify the buildware-plugin tag on the repository
• Download and validate the plugin files
• Check compatibility with your Buildware-Tools version
• Install any required dependencies
• Install the plugin into Programs/Plugins/

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Managing Plugins

Go to Plugin Manager → Manage Plugins to:

Action	Description
Show / Hide	Toggle the plugin visibility in the main menu
Run	Launch the plugin directly from the manager
Update	Download and install the latest version from GitHub
Uninstall	Remove the plugin from the tool

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Finding Plugins

All community plugins are tagged with buildware-plugin on GitHub.
You can browse them at: https://github.com/topics/buildware-plugin

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Plugin Structure

A plugin is a GitHub repository containing these two files:

your-plugin/
├── plugin.json    ← plugin metadata
└── main.py        ← plugin code

See Creating a Plugin if you want to build your own.