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Summary

Studio's plugin surface (packages/common/src/plugin.ts) is typed from source by in-tree plugins through tsconfig paths. A plugin living in its own repository can't do that — resolving those sources needs this workspace's node_modules, including the unpublished @nemo/sdk — so out-of-tree plugins hand-write a declare module "@nemo/common" shim instead. That shim drifts silently, and in the case that prompted this, it declared an export the real surface never had.

pnpm --filter @nemo/common types:plugin now rolls the surface into a single dist/plugin-types/plugin.d.ts that a plugin repo can commit and point its paths at.

Related Issue

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Changes

  • packages/common/scripts/build-plugin-types.mjs — rolldown + rolldown-plugin-dts, entry src/plugin.ts, emitting one bundled .d.ts.
  • packages/common/tsconfig.plugin-types.json — scopes declaration emit to the surface graph, so stories and other package files can't fail the build.
  • types:plugin script and the two devDependencies (rolldown, rolldown-plugin-dts).
  • plugins/example-plugin/web/AGENTS.md — documents the out-of-tree path beside the existing in-tree one, including the stubs a consumer needs and the reminder that a stale copy still compiles.

Two module groups stay external, both deliberately:

  • @nemo/sdk — inlining it pulls ~650 generated schema modules to satisfy the two types LogViewer and the job-status constants reference (PlatformJobLog, PlatformJobStatus). A consumer stubs those in a dozen lines. Bundling them instead produced 761 files / 3 MB versus one 476 KB file.
  • @assistant-ui — not a choice. @assistant-ui/store's shipped .d.ts re-exports a ClientSchema it does not declare, so inlining it fails the bundle with MISSING_EXPORT. Consumers install the real package for types.

For the record, dts-bundle-generator was tried first and is unusable here: it crashes on TypeScript 7 (ts.sys is undefined at import time).

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with documentation updates
  • Documentation only
  • Contributor tooling or automation
  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification: build tooling that emits a generated artifact; the meaningful check is that a real out-of-tree plugin typechecks against the output, which was done manually (below). Nothing in the shipped bundle changes.
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not applicable — justification:

Verification

  • Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
  • Every commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
  • uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
  • Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

  • pnpm --filter @nemo/common types:plugin — emits dist/plugin-types/plugin.d.ts (476 KB). External imports in the output are exactly @nemo/sdk/generated/platform/schema, @assistant-ui/react, class-variance-authority, and react.
  • End-to-end against a real out-of-tree plugin (nemo-zoomer-plugin): vendored the generated file, pointed paths at it, deleted the hand-written shim → tsc --noEmit clean, and the swap immediately caught a fabricated MarkdownLinkProps export in the shim it replaced. That plugin then moved its table onto the real StudioDataView + useStudioDataViewState, which the shim could never have described.
  • Commit-time hooks passed (UI lint-staged, merge conflicts). Full uv run pre-commit run -a was not run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added bundled TypeScript declarations for the web plugin surface, simplifying plugin development and integration.
    • Added guidance for out-of-tree plugin developers on using generated declarations and handling platform type stubs.
  • Documentation

    • Documented how to vendor, regenerate, and maintain plugin type definitions.
  • Chores

    • Added automated checks to detect outdated generated plugin declarations.
    • Excluded generated plugin artifacts from formatting, linting, and language statistics.

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Plugin declaration generation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Declaration build pipeline
web/packages/common/tsconfig.plugin-types.json, web/packages/common/package.json, web/packages/common/scripts/build-plugin-types.ts
The common package generates a bundled plugin.d.ts artifact from src/plugin.ts with selected dependencies externalized.
Generated artifact validation
.github/workflows/ci.yaml, web/.prettierignore, web/eslint.config.js, .gitattributes
CI regenerates the plugin declarations and checks that the committed artifact is current. Generated files are excluded from formatting, linting, and Linguist categorization.
Out-of-tree plugin workflow
plugins/example-plugin/web/AGENTS.md
The documentation describes vendoring plugin.d.ts, configuring type dependencies and schema stubs, and regenerating declarations after plugin changes.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PluginDeveloper
  participant CommonPackage
  participant Rolldown
  participant PluginArtifact
  participant CI

  PluginDeveloper->>CommonPackage: Run types:plugin
  CommonPackage->>Rolldown: Build declarations from src/plugin.ts
  Rolldown->>PluginArtifact: Write plugin.d.ts
  CI->>CommonPackage: Regenerate declarations
  CI->>PluginArtifact: Check committed artifact
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Suggested reviewers: nakolean

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to 4704c

The PR adds vendorable plugin declarations and updates CI setup; it is mergeable with owner awareness because external-import guidance may not match the generated output, and CI bootstrap reproducibility is weakened by installing Corepack outside the lockfile.

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In `@web/packages/common/scripts/build-plugin-types.mjs`:
- Line 20: Update the external dependency configuration in
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class-variance-authority for generated plugin declarations. Make no direct
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Suite Lines Covered Line Rate Branch Rate
Unit Tests 33342/42105 79.2% 64.1%
Integration Tests 19459/39905 48.8% 21.0%

Studio's plugin surface (`packages/common/src/plugin.ts`) is typed from source
by in-tree plugins through tsconfig `paths`. A plugin in its own repository
can't do that: resolving those sources drags in this workspace's node_modules
and the unpublished `@nemo/sdk`, so out-of-tree plugins have been hand-writing
a `declare module "@nemo/common"` shim instead — which drifts, and in at least
one case declared exports the real surface never had.

`pnpm --filter @nemo/common types:plugin` rolls the surface into a single
`dist/plugin-types/plugin.d.ts` that a plugin repo can commit and point its
`paths` at. `@nemo/sdk` stays external: bundling it pulls ~650 generated schema
modules to satisfy the two types LogViewer and the job-status constants use,
which a consumer stubs in a dozen lines. `class-variance-authority` is external
for the same reason.

Verified end to end against an out-of-tree plugin: typing it against the
generated file left zero errors, and immediately surfaced a fabricated export
in the shim it replaced.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
The generated surface only helps out-of-tree plugins if it tracks the surface
it describes, and a stale copy is invisible: it still compiles, just against
exports that no longer exist. So commit the artifact and let CI enforce it.

`web-plugin-types` regenerates and runs `git diff --exit-code`, so a change to
`plugin.ts` that skips regeneration fails on the PR that made it rather than in
a plugin repo weeks later. This is stricter than `web-sdk-gen`, which
regenerates and typechecks but never diffs the committed output.

Three things would otherwise rewrite the artifact and break byte-equality with
a fresh generation, which is the whole check: Prettier and ESLint both claim it
(`.d.ts` matches lint-staged's `**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}`) and are now excluded, and
the copyright hook wanted to prepend a header — so the generator emits the
banner itself and the hook is a no-op. Regeneration is deterministic; running it
twice produces no diff.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
`linguist-generated` collapses a file in GitHub diffs and drops it from language
stats. The rolled-up plugin surface types are ~10k lines regenerated by a build
step, so leaving them unmarked buries every review that touches Studio's shared
surface under an artifact nobody reads.

Follows the existing entries for the OpenAPI specs, the Python SDK, and the
built plugin web bundles. Also covers `web/packages/studio/src/generated`, which
was missed. `web/packages/sdk/generated` needs no entry — it is gitignored and
regenerated rather than committed.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
The note said both external modules need a local stub. Only `@nemo/sdk` does —
it is unpublished. `class-variance-authority` and `@assistant-ui/react` are
ordinary npm packages, so a consumer installs them as type-only devDependencies,
which is what the one out-of-tree plugin actually does.

Also points readers at the generated file's own import lines rather than a
hand-maintained list, since which modules stay external follows the surface.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
`eslint . --max-warnings 0` failed on the generator: nothing in the flat config
matches a nested `.mjs`, so it linted with no environment and `console` came
back undefined.

Move it to `.ts` run through `tsx`, which is how this package already runs
`scripts/update-max-warnings-a11y.ts` — that config block covers
`packages/common/**/*.ts`, supplies node globals, and is where the existing
`// eslint-disable-next-line no-console` precedent comes from. Output is
byte-identical, so the committed artifact is untouched.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
#1293 landed on main, so `plugin.ts` now exports `AssistantChat` and the
committed rollup no longer matched the surface it describes. `web-plugin-types`
caught it on the merge commit, which is the case the job exists for.

This also makes the `@assistant-ui` external rule load-bearing rather than
defensive: the generated file now imports `ThreadMessageLike` and
`ThreadPrimitive` from it.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
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Looks good from devops angle.

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