Agent Of Empires Daily: Plugin Platform Lays Its Foundation
Four pull requests from Seluj78 built out the core plugin infrastructure the MCP and Skills plugins have been waiting on, adding new UI slots and host-side RPCs for skills, MCP management, and configuration. Together they turn two previously stubbed-out plugin systems into ones with real APIs to build against.
Duration: PT2M19S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Agent Of Empires Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Agent Of Empires Daily
- Published: 2026-07-19T20:00:26Z
- Audio duration: PT2M19S
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Good morning. It's July 19th, 2026, and this is Agent Of Empires Daily.
Today's activity is all one story: the plugin platform is catching up to what the MCP and Skills plugins actually need to ship.
Start with the UI side. PR 2991 adds a shared "tool card badge" slot so plugins can attach a provenance pill to tool-call cards in the transcript — a slot both the MCP and Skills plugins were explicitly waiting on, per the linked issues. PR 2989 goes further, adding a full "settings page" slot with its own web…
On the host side, two companion PRs deliver the actual data and RPCs those UI slots need. PR 2993 ships a real skills model — discovery, and the skills and file-system RPCs — replacing what the description calls a directory that was just "bulk-copied into sandboxes" with no API at all. PR 2992 does the equivalent…
The throughline: this is scaffolding work, done deliberately in pairs — UI slot plus backing RPCs — so the MCP and Skills plugin repositories have something concrete to build against. Review activity backs that up too; PR 2993 drew sixteen comments, the heaviest of the batch, consistent with it introducing a…
What to remember: these are foundational, capability-gated…
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