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Plugins

A plugins repository provides users the ability to expand the core capabilities of trunk check and trunk actions. A plugin repo contains a set of custom linter and action definitions.

Importing a plugin repository

By default trunk imports the trunk-io/plugins repository. To import a repo add it to the plugins list. Each repo requires a URI and ref.
plugins:
sources:
- id: trunk
uri: https://github.com/trunk-io/plugins
ref: v0.0.15
import_to_global: true
field
description
id
unique identifier for this repository
uri
address used to clone the target repository
ref
commit id or tag to checkout
local
path to local (on-disk) repository
import_to_global (default: true)
import content into the global namespace. If set to false actions and linters defined in the plugin must be referenced by {plugin_id}.{name}

Custom linters and actions

The root of a plugin repository can have any number of plugin.yaml files where linters and actions are defined. The plugin.yaml files look a lot like a standard trunk.yaml file with the addition of a special field required_trunk_version at the root level plugin.yaml, which indicates the minimum trunk version required to use that repo. All configuration is then merged into one composite plugin configuration.
Beyond the required_trunk_version the definition of an action or linter is no different in a plugin repository.

Add a plugin to your trunk.yaml file

To add a plugin from GitHub:
trunk plugins add https://github.com/trunk-io/plugins --id=trunk
To add a plugin from GitHub at a specific version:
trunk plugins add https://github.com/trunk-io/plugins v0.0.16 --id=trunk
To add a plugin from a local repository:
trunk plugins add /home/user/self/hello-world --id=hello-world

Contributing to a published plugin repository

Let's quickly walk through how to modify/add to an existing remote repository. In this case we'll make an edit to the trunk-io/plugins repository.
  1. 1.
    Clone the plugins repository to your local disk - git clone [email protected]:trunk-io/plugins.git
  2. 2.
    Make sure the local field in your trunk.yaml file points to your local instance. If a plugin source includes a local field, it will supercede the remote uri/ref values.
plugins:
sources:
- id: trunk
uri: https://github.com/trunk-io/plugins
ref: v0.0.15
local: .
  1. 3.
    Edit the entries in the local version of the plugin repository.
  2. 4.
    Push your changes to the remote version of the plugin repo.

Plugins scope

Plugins are merged serially, in the order that they are sourced, and can override almost any Trunk configuration. This allows organizations to provide a set of overrides and definitions in one central place.
For instance, you can create your own my-plugins repository with plugin.yaml:
version: 0.1
lint:
definitions:
- name: trufflehog
commands:
- name: lint
# override trufflehog to use '--only-verified'
run: trufflehog filesystem --json --fail --only-verified ${target}
enabled:
sourced in a .trunk/trunk.yaml file from another repository as follows:
version: 0.1
plugins:
sources:
- id: trunk
uri: https://github.com/trunk-io/plugins
ref: v0.0.15
- id: my-plugins
local: ../my-plugins
When a user runs trunk in the sourcing repository, they will already have ruff enabled, along with any overrides and definitions enumerated in the my-plugins repository.
Note that private GitHub plugin repositories are not currently supported.

Excluded fields

Plugin sources, as well as the cli version, are not merged from plugin repositories to ensure that config merging occurs in a predictable, stable fashion.