This repo provides the fastest way to make a plugin for the aspect cli.

It contains a plugin written in Go, with a GitHub actions CI/CD pipeline to release it.

More details about aspect cli plugins is on the plugin documentation

Create a new repo with the green "Use this template" button above. Then in your repo...

1. Find-and-replace hello-world with your plugin name.
2. Find-and-replace github.com/aspect-build/aspect-cli-plugin-template with the name of your Go module. See https://go.dev/doc/modules/developing
3. Start coding on your features!
4. Delete everything above the SNIP line below, and replace it with info about your plugin.
5. Once satisfied, create a tag vX.Y.Z and push it to trigger the GitHub Action that will create the release.
6. Navigate to the releases tab of your repository, you'll find a draft release based on your tag. Publish it to complete the release process.
7. Want to share your plugin with other developers? Consider adding it to the plugin catalog, by sending a PR editing the plugins.json file located in the public Aspect CLI plugins registry.

1. Run bazel build :dev to build your plugin
2. In an existing codebase using aspect-cli, add the plugin like following:

# .aspect/cli/config.yaml
plugins:
  - name: <your-plugin-name>
    from: <relative path to the plugin>/bazel-bin/plugin

1. You're all set, just remember to build the :dev target whenever you change code in the plugin.

If you want to work with BEPEventCallback(event *buildeventstream.BuildEvent) error but you're not very familiar with the event structures, you can run the Bazel command you're looking to augment with the --build_event_json_file=bep.json and inspect the resulting bep.json to get a rough understanding about where you should look into.

See also the Bazel user guide page about BEP.

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This is a plugin for the Aspect CLI.

TODO: Consider showing off your new plugin with a little animated demo of your terminal! We highly recommend asciinema.