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Getting Started ​

Callora is a plugin platform for .NET: a host application that discovers, installs, and runs plugins as first-class extensions — with hot install and activation, no host restart, and a compiler-enforced contract between host and plugin. This section takes you from zero to a running plugin and gives you the operator and project knowledge to keep going.

What you'll learn ​

  • The recommended path through these getting-started guides
  • Where the hands-on tutorial fits and what to read next
  • Where to find deeper conceptual and reference material

Start here: build a plugin ​

The fastest way to understand Callora is to build a plugin end to end. The tutorial scaffolds a plugin, adds an HTTP endpoint, validates its contract, then installs and activates it in a running host — hot, with no restart.

Then: the operator and author essentials ​

Once you've seen a plugin run, these three guides fill in the model behind it:

  • Install and activate plugins — the plugin lifecycle from an operator's view: the Installed → Active → Inactive state model (with the terminal Uninstalled), and the operator API that drives it.
  • Plugin project layout — the recommended project structure (Domain / Application / Infrastructure), where registry.json, the .csproj, and UI resources live, and the contract rules your project must follow.
  • The callora CLI — scaffold plugins (plugin new), validate them against the host contract (plugin test-contract), and sign them for distribution (plugin sign).

Next steps ​