writing-opencode-plugins

A guide for creating OpenCode plugins, which are extensions that add server features or interactive terminal-interface features. It covers hooks, tools, commands, keybindings, routes, dialogs, and packaging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, editing, testing, reviewing, or publishing OpenCode server or terminal-interface plugins.
Why use it?
It helps keep plugin code aligned with the current OpenCode API and separates server features from terminal-interface features correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sveltejs/ai-tools/writing-opencode-plugins
Any agent
npx skills add sveltejs/ai-tools --skill writing-opencode-plugins
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sveltejs/ai-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,309 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00063 $0.01309
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash f9687fb8abc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-opencode-plugins scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/writing-opencode-plugins/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing OpenCode Plugins

Use this skill to implement production-quality OpenCode plugins. Treat the repository's exported types and runtime as authoritative because plugin APIs are evolving and public docs may lag.

Start Here

  1. Decide which runtime owns the feature.
  2. Read the relevant public type before writing code.
  3. Find one focused in-repository example using the same API.
  4. Implement the smallest target-specific module.
  5. Test loading, behavior, failure, and cleanup in the owning package.
Need Plugin target Import Configuration
Hooks, tools, auth, providers, model parameters, shell environment Server @opencode-ai/plugin opencode.json or auto-discovered .opencode/plugins/*.{ts,js}
Commands, keybindings, routes, dialogs, slots, themes, notifications TUI @opencode-ai/plugin/tui Explicit tui.json plugin entry
Both Two target-only entrypoints Both imports in separate files Package exports ./server and ./tui

Never export server and tui from the same module. Do not use server event hooks as a substitute for interactive TUI APIs.

Verify The Current Contract

Read these files before implementing unfamiliar behavior:

  • packages/plugin/src/index.ts: authoritative server plugin and hook types.
  • packages/plugin/src/tool.ts: custom tool schema, context, permission, metadata, attachments, and result types.
  • packages/plugin/src/tui.ts: authoritative TUI API and module types.
  • packages/opencode/specs/tui-plugins.md: TUI loading, packaging, lifecycle, and API semantics.
  • packages/opencode/src/plugin/shared.ts: target validation, IDs, and entrypoint resolution.
  • packages/opencode/src/plugin/loader.ts: install, compatibility, and import behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 127 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A f9687fb8abc9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-opencode-plugins is a skill published in the GitHub repository sveltejs/ai-tools (314 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,309 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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