Wiki Searching Plugins

Category wikis · Version 5.5

A strategy for finding a federated-wiki plugin — or proving one doesn't exist — across six cost-ordered channels (installed, local repos, farm search, npm, GitHub code search, catalog wikis). Activates when looking for a fedwiki plugin or confirming none exists. Kept by the Librarian 🗃️ in the Tower's Wikis.

A strategy for finding federated wiki plugins — or proving one doesn't exist. The key principle: don't grep page files — the farm has proper indexes, so search them.

The Six Channels

1. Installed plugins — ls the wiki's node_modules for wiki-plugin-*
2. Local repos — ~/Code/wiki-plugins/
3. The farm's own knowledge — the wiki-search CLI (below)
4. npm — the wiki-plugin-{name} convention plus description search
5. GitHub — repo search, then the decisive code search
6. Plugin catalog wikis — plugin.fedwiki.club, wiki.dbbs.co, wiki.ralfbarkow.ch sitemaps

wiki-search — the Custom Local Search

~/bin/wiki-search combines both farm indexes in one command:

wiki-search "mermaid plugin"
wiki-search "diagram rendering" --limit 15
wiki-search "similarity" --domains 'plugin.*'
wiki-search "graphviz" --text-only

Full-text — loads the prebuilt MiniSearch indexes (one per domain) and runs a fuzzy/prefix word search across all of them. No servers needed; rebuild stale indexes with node build.mjs in the index directory.

Semantic — posts to the Farm API's /search-report, which embeds the query, scans every domain's vectors, drops stubs, and bundles forks. Finds pages about plugins even when they use different words.

The two are complementary: MiniSearch catches exact names ("graphviz"), semantic catches concepts ("diagram rendering"). Hits on plugin.fedwiki.club are the curated plugin documentation — treat those as authoritative.

The Decisive GitHub Check

Every fedwiki client plugin must register itself with a line like window.plugins.mermaid = {emit, bind}. A GitHub code search for that string is therefore conclusive:

gh api 'search/code?q=%22window.plugins.NAME%22' \
  --jq '.items[].repository.full_name'

If this finds nothing, no public fedwiki plugin of that name exists — regardless of what repo-name searches suggest. Beware false friends: TiddlyWiki, Redmine, DokuWiki, and Obsidian all have plugin ecosystems with confusingly similar names.

Reporting the Result

State which channels were checked. "No public plugin exists" is a valid, useful conclusion when supported by the registration-line code search. When nothing exists and a new plugin is wanted, the best scaffolding templates are wiki-plugin-graphviz (client-side rendering with clickable internal links) and wiki-plugin-similarity (DSL parsing, server routes, ghost pages).

Related Skills

• agentprivacy-wiki-similarity-plugin — a worked scaffolding example
• agentprivacy-wiki-create-plugin — scaffold a new plugin when none exists
• agentprivacy-wiki-document-plugin — document a plugin on plugin.fedwiki.club

Verify: agentprivacy.ai · kept by the Librarian 🗃️ in the Tower's Wikis (the git-less onboarding layer)
Upstream: skill.fedwiki.club/searching-for-plugins — vendored + re-framed; not original agentprivacy authorship

Provenance

Forkable skill page migrated from the agentprivacy skills repo (persona/agentprivacy-wiki-searching-plugins, v5.5).
Source of truth: agentprivacy-skills-v5. Fork this page to materialize a local SKILL.md via fedwiki-to-skill.

origin: 0xagentprivacy · author: Mitchell Travers

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