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docs(design): Forgecell plugins — engine-called MCP integrations (trackers, forges, reviewers) - #288
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…trackers, forges and reviewers Replaces the plan in #259 and absorbs #260. A plugin is an MCP server with a fixed per-kind tool contract; the engine is the only caller, writes stay behind human gates, and GitHub becomes the first built-in implementation behind the same interfaces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ness-as-plugin, evidence Atoms, ci kind, read API, sandboxing) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What this is
A design doc for review: Forgecell plugins. GitLab, Jira and outside code reviewers become engine-called MCP integrations behind one small, contributor-friendly interface. It replaces the plan in #259 and absorbs #260.
Key decisions
tracker,forgeorreviewer. Contributors can write one in any language.forge_publish_draft) run only behind a human gate, bound to the approved digest. They are never exposed to a harness. Read-only tools may also be attached to the model as context through the existing extension path.kind,contractandneeds. A plugin is enabled by a reviewed Formula change.forgecell plugin newscaffolds a plugin;forgecell plugin testis the conformance kit (offline contract mode, opt-in live mode).Rollout
docs/plugins.mdA builder check (a fresh reviewer planning from the doc alone) raised 8 questions. 7 are answered in the doc and marked "my call". 1, the fix-round gates, was decided by the operator.
Docs only. No marketing or product impact until the slices land.
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