LAO Plugin Ecosystem

Welcome to the official community plugin registry for LAO (Local AI Orchestrator)!
This is the place to discover, share, and contribute plugins that supercharge your local AI workflows.

🚀 Explore plugins on our site:
https://abendrothj.github.io/lao-plugins

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🌟 About LAO

LAO is an offline, agentic workflow engine for chaining local AI models and plugins into powerful, prompt-driven pipelines. This repo powers the plugin ecosystem—open to all!

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📚 Plugin Directory Structure

Plugins live in /plugins/YourPluginName/:

/plugins/
  /MyPlugin/
    plugin.yaml     # Plugin metadata (manifest, see below)
    README.md       # Usage/install info
    [binaries, examples, source, etc.]

Example plugin.yaml:

name: MyAwesomePlugin
version: 1.0.0
description: Adds next-gen AI processing to LAO
author: Contributor Name
license: MIT
repository: https://github.com/yourusername/my-awesome-plugin
tags: [ai, processing, text]
capabilities:
  - name: summarize
    description: Summarizes text with LLM
    input_type: text
    output_type: text
compatible_core: 0.5.0
dependencies: []

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🚀 Quick Start

To use plugins:

1. Browse or search plugins on the site.
2. Each plugin's README.md has install/use instructions.
3. Check plugin.yaml for compatibility/version info.

To contribute a new plugin:

1. Fork this repo, add a new directory to /plugins/.
2. Include your plugin.yaml, README.md, and binaries (if distributing).
3. Submit a Pull Request (see CONTRIBUTING.md)!

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🧩 Plugin Requirements

• plugin.yaml manifest: required fields as above.
• Documentation (README.md): how to install/use, contact.
• All distributed binaries built for major OS targets, where needed.
• List dependencies and special requirements.

Best starting point: plugin-template

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🤝 Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for full details!

• Fork, branch, PR—just like any open source repo.
• We welcome all contributions that enhance LAO's local agentic workflows.

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🆘 Support

• Plugin-specific issues: check their README or linked repo.
• General help/questions? Open an issue here.
• For engine/core issues: visit LAO main repo.

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📄 License

Each community plugin: see its own license.
This registry is MIT-licensed.

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