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feat(extensions): load extensions from a system-wide directory - #107
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Packaged installs (rpm, deb, ...) put shared extensions under /usr, but Kit only searched per-user and project-local paths, so a packaged extension was invisible until every user copied it into ~/.config. - add SystemExtensionsDir, default /usr/share/kit/extensions, settable by packagers at build time via -ldflags -X - add the KIT_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_DIR env override, which accepts several directories separated by the platform list separator; an empty value disables system-wide discovery - scan system dirs first, so a user extension still wins over a system-wide one and precedence stays unchanged for existing setups - watch the system dirs for hot-reload - rename globalExtensionsDir to userExtensionsDir, which now says what it really is next to the new system scope - document the new scope in README, the extensions skill, and the loading, configuration and SDK options pages - modernize two reverse loops flagged by the linter in the touched package Fixes#106
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughKit now discovers extensions from configurable system-wide directories before user and project-local paths. Watchers, renderer lookup, tests, CLI output, and documentation reflect the updated discovery model. ChangesSystem-wide extension support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to The PR adds system-wide extension discovery, while two bounded inconsistencies remain in diagnostics and Windows configuration documentation; these could mislead users but do not indicate a runtime correctness or availability failure. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to align those paths and platform examples. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Kit
participant ExtensionLoader
participant SystemExtensions
participant UserExtensions
participant ProjectExtensions
Kit->>ExtensionLoader: discoverExtensionPaths
ExtensionLoader->>SystemExtensions: resolve and scan configured directories
ExtensionLoader->>UserExtensions: resolve and scan user directory
ExtensionLoader->>ProjectExtensions: scan project-local and explicit paths
ExtensionLoader-->>Kit: return ordered extension paths
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In `@cmd/extensions.go`:
- Around line 32-33: Update the extension search-path output in the surrounding
function to check errors returned by each fmt.Println call and return
fmt.Errorf("writing extension search paths: %w", err) on failure, rather than
returning nil; preserve the existing output and success flow.
Apply the same fix in `@cmd/extensions.go` around lines 32 - 33.
In `@internal/extensions/loader_test.go`:
- Around line 397-412: Update the XDG_CONFIG_HOME setup and cleanup in both user
extensions directory tests, including TestUserExtensionsDir_Default, to use
t.Setenv instead of os.Getenv with deferred os.Setenv restoration. Preserve each
test’s configured value and ensure the original unset or set state is restored
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 435-437: Update the KIT_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_DIR documentation in
README.md lines 435-437 and www/pages/configuration.md lines 75-81 to describe
platform-specific list separators, noting “:” on Unix and “;” on Windows,
instead of implying colon is universal.
In `@www/pages/extensions/loading.md`:
- Around line 20-26: Reorder the extension-directory table so the global
git-installed package entry for ~/.local/share/kit/git/ appears before the
project-local entries, including .kit/git/. Keep the surrounding loading-order
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…106) - build the "extensions list" search-path hint from the loader via the new AuthoredSearchPaths, so a multi-directory KIT_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_DIR prints one line per directory and a disabled system scope prints none; the hard-coded list could not represent either - restore XDG_CONFIG_HOME with t.Setenv in the user-dir tests, which also keeps an originally-unset variable unset - add an unsetEnv test helper for the system-dir tests: systemExtensionsDirs reads with os.LookupEnv, so unset and empty differ and t.Setenv cannot express "absent". Those two tests previously called os.Unsetenv with no restore, which leaked into later tests in the package - document the list separator as platform-specific (":" on Unix, ";" on Windows) in README and the configuration page, matching filepath.SplitList - move the global git row above the project-local rows in the loading table, which now matches discoverExtensionPaths Not applied: propagating fmt.Println errors in cmd/extensions.go. All 60 fmt.Println calls under cmd/ are unchecked and .golangci.yml enables neither errcheck nor forbidigo, so changing three of them would be inconsistent rather than safer. Replied on the thread.
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34-40: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMake the multi-directory example platform-specific.
Line 35 states that Windows uses
;. Line 39 then shows a Unix-only assignment with:. A Windows user can copy an invalid configuration. Add a Windows example, or label the existing example as Unix-only.Proposed documentation change
+On Unix:+ ```bash KIT_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_DIR=/opt/kit/extensions:/srv/kit/extensions kit+In PowerShell:
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…#106) The prose says Windows separates directories with ";" but the only example used ":", so a Windows reader could copy a value that parses as one path. Add a PowerShell example beside the Unix one and label both.
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Fixes#106.
Problem
Kit searches several extension directories, but all of them are per-user or per-project:
That is awkward for a system-wide install. When Kit ships as an rpm or a deb, the package puts its files under
/usr, and an extension shipped that way is invisible to Kit — every user on the machine has to copy it into~/.config/kit/extensions/by hand before it loads.Change
Discovery gains a fourth scope, searched before the per-user one:
/usr/share/kit/extensions/~/.config/kit/extensions/.kit/extensions/-e path.goglobalExtensionsDiris renamed touserExtensionsDir, since "global" no longer distinguishes it from anything now that a genuinely machine-wide scope exists.The location is adjustable at three levels, which the issue asked for as "or make it configurable at build time":
WatchedDirsalso watches the system directories, so/reload-extand the file watcher behave there like they do everywhere else.Why system-wide sorts first
Load order is precedence order: later extensions register their handlers after earlier ones. Putting the system scope at the bottom means a user extension still overrides a packaged one, and every existing installation keeps the precedence it has today. Nothing re-orders for people who never create the directory.
Compatibility
Backwards compatible.
/usr/share/kit/extensionsalmost never exists on a developer machine, and a missing directory is skipped silently by the existingfindExtensionsInDirstat check, so discovery is unchanged unless a package creates it.userExtensionsDiris unexported, so the rename is not an API break.On Windows the default path simply never exists and the scope is inert;
KIT_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_DIRusesfilepath.SplitList, so it honours;there.Tests
Six new cases in
internal/extensions/loader_test.go:SystemExtensionsDirKIT_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_DIRoverride, including a multi-directory valueSystemExtensionsDirdisables the scopeThe two existing
TestGlobalExtensionsDir_*cases were renamed toTestUserExtensionsDir_*to follow the function.Also smoke-tested against a real binary, both paths:
and the same result from a binary built with the
-ldflagsdefault above.Validation
gofmt·go build·go vet·go test -race ./...·golangci-lint run— all clean.Docs
README.mdandskills/kit-extensions/SKILL.md— auto-discovery listswww/pages/extensions/loading.md— discovery table plus a "System-wide extensions" sectionwww/pages/configuration.md— "Environment variables" claimed any key works via theKIT_prefix, but this one is read withos.LookupEnvrather than viper and has no.kit.ymlequivalent, so it gets a separate tablewww/pages/sdk/options.md— embedders share the same discovery path, so an SDK app now picks up host system extensions unlessNoExtensionsis set; noted next to that fieldbun run buildon the docs site passes and both new anchors resolve.One unrelated hunk
runner.gocontains two reverse loops modernized toslices.Backward. They are pre-existinggolangci-lintfindings in the package this PR already touches, and they were blocking a clean lint run here. Flagging rather than hiding them — happy to split them out if you would rather keep the diff pure.Unrelated to this branch: CI pins golangci-lint
v2.10.1whilego.modtargets go 1.26.5. That combination fails to load its config locally, but the CI lint job resolves a compatible build and passes with0 issues, so this is a local-toolchain quirk only.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
KIT_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_DIR, or disable system discovery with an empty value.Documentation