Ship a plugin in an afternoon: the write-up
From empty folder to the registry in four hours — a first-time author's honest log, mistakes included.
A plugin is one manifest and one function. The rest is packaging, review, and a little taste.
The short version
Plugin authoring matters because agents are no longer just suggesting changes. They read files, call tools, run commands, and move context between systems.
OpenLeash keeps that power visible. Every plugin can inspect an event, make a decision, and leave an audit trail that humans can understand later.
What OpenLeash watches
Prompts, tool calls, sessions, skills, logs, and startup inventory all flow through the same event model. Plugins can block, mask, rewrite, compress, export, or simply observe.
That keeps the workflow fast when the agent is safe and explicit when the blast radius changes.