Runtime overview

The plugin manager owns discovery, manifest checks, activation, rollback, diagnostics, and disablement.

Boot shape

1. Discover bundled and community plugins.
2. Validate manifests and runtime requirements.
3. Activate enabled plugins.
4. Register commands, views, settings, events, and CSS.
5. Restore workspace layout after activation settles.

Community plugins may run in a renderer compatibility host or, on desktop, a hosted sidecar path for plugins that request brokered capabilities. The selected host exposes a capability facade rather than the full internal app graph.