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What this enables

Tools provided by installed vfox backend plugins now show up where users look for tools:

$ mise search formatter
biome
my-ecosystem:fast-formatter

$ mise use my-ecosystem:fast-formatter@latest

The same results are available to shell completion. Running mise use with no arguments also includes tools from plugins that publish a finite catalog.

This supports two different ecosystem shapes:

• A plugin for a small, known catalog can implement BackendListTools once and return every tool it provides.
• A plugin for a very large ecosystem, such as npm, can implement BackendSearchTools. Mise passes the user's current query to the plugin, so typing mise search eslint or completing mise use npm:esl… searches for matching packages without downloading or enumerating all of npm.
• A plugin may implement both: a curated list for browsing and dynamic search for the long tail.

Results are namespaced as <plugin>:<tool>, so they can be selected and installed without colliding with mise's built-in registry. mise registry remains registry-only.

Behavior and resilience

• mise search <query> merges matching registry entries with results from installed plugins.
• A prefixed query such as npm:eslint is routed only to that plugin and is passed to it as eslint.
• Independent plugins are queried concurrently with a fixed concurrency limit.
• List and query results are cached separately; timeouts can fall back to stale cache data so one slow plugin does not make discovery unusable.
• Invalid or unavailable plugin results are ignored rather than offered as broken selections.

This closes the implementation gap discussed in #13109.

Plugin API

Adds two optional vfox backend hooks:

• BackendListTools(ctx) for bounded catalogs
• BackendSearchTools({ query }) for query-driven discovery

Both return tool names with optional descriptions. Existing plugins remain compatible and do not need to implement either hook.

Contributor guidance

Updates AGENTS.md to require PR descriptions to lead with user impact and include concrete examples and material tradeoffs for user-facing changes.

Testing

• mise --cd crates/vfox run test backend_
• mise exec -- cargo test --all-features tool_catalog
• mise run test:e2e e2e/plugins/test_backend_plugin_discovery e2e/cli/test_search
• mise run render
• mise run lint-fix
• mise --cd crates/vfox run lint
• git diff --check

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • mise search now includes tools from installed backend catalogs alongside registry tools.
  • Backend plugins can provide searchable and discoverable tools, including dynamic results.
  • Search matches tool names and identifiers, with descriptions shown where available.
  • Interactive mise use selection includes tools from the unified catalog.
  • Shell completion supports filtered tool names, descriptions, and identifiers.
  • Catalog results are cached to improve repeated searches and completion.

• Documentation

  • Updated command references and backend plugin documentation to describe catalog search and completion support.

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Medium Risk
Discovery runs optional Lua hooks across installed backend plugins with caching and concurrency; failures are swallowed but wrong or slow plugin behavior could affect search, completion, and interactive mise use.

Overview
mise search and tool picking now include installed vfox backend plugins, not only the built-in registry. Tools appear as plugin:tool (for example catalog_plugin:formatter) and can be installed with the same id you see in search.

$ mise search formatter
# …registry hits plus backend catalog entries…

$ mise use my-plugin:some-tool@latest

Plugins can expose tools in two optional ways: BackendListTools for a small fixed catalog, and BackendSearchTools for query-driven lookup (suited to large ecosystems). A prefixed query like npm:eslint is sent only to that plugin. List and search results are cached separately, with stale cache used on timeout; invalid tool names from plugins are dropped.

Shell completion for tools and tool@ prefixes now comes from mise search --complete / --complete-ids instead of mise registry. Interactive mise use (no tool argument) uses the same unified catalog. mise registry stays registry-only.

Contributor docs add optional hook files and examples; AGENTS.md now asks PR descriptions to lead with user impact and examples.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds vfox backend list and search hooks. mise combines registry and backend tools in a query-aware catalog for search, completion, and interactive selection.

Changes

Backend tool catalog

Layer / File(s)	Summary
vfox backend hooks crates/vfox/src/hooks/*, crates/vfox/src/vfox.rs, crates/vfox/src/lua_mod/hooks.rs, crates/vfox/plugins/dummy-backend/*, docs/backend-plugin-development.md	Adds shared tool response types, the BackendSearchTools context and hook, hook registration, plugin delegation, optional-hook tests, dummy implementations, and documentation.
Catalog aggregation and concurrency src/tool_catalog.rs, src/plugins/vfox_plugin.rs, src/main.rs	Registers the tool catalog, delegates backend search, limits backend discovery concurrency, validates names, applies caching, and deduplicates entries.
Catalog-based search and completion src/cli/search.rs, mise.usage.kdl, src/assets/mise-extra.usage.kdl, docs/cli/*, docs/public/llms.txt, man/man1/mise.1, AGENTS.md	Searches registry and backend catalogs, matches IDs and names, adds completion modes, and updates command descriptions and completion commands.
Interactive selection and end-to-end validation src/cli/use.rs, e2e/plugins/test_backend_plugin_discovery	Loads catalog entries asynchronously for interactive selection and tests backend discovery, query filtering, completion, invalid names, and caching.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Search as mise search
  participant Catalog as tool_catalog
  participant VfoxPlugin as VfoxPlugin
  participant Vfox as Vfox
  participant Backend as BackendSearchTools hook
  Search->>Catalog: search query
  Catalog->>VfoxPlugin: request backend tools
  VfoxPlugin->>Vfox: backend_search_tools(query)
  Vfox->>Backend: invoke BackendSearchTools(ctx)
  Backend-->>Vfox: return tool metadata
  Vfox-->>VfoxPlugin: return BackendTool values
  VfoxPlugin-->>Catalog: return query results
  Catalog-->>Search: return unified catalog

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Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the previously reported discovery, concurrency, and empty-query failures are fixed and no actionable new regression was established.

Summary

• Adds optional finite-list and query-driven vfox backend hooks.
• Namespaces backend results as plugin:tool, validates returned names, and respects backend/tool settings.
• Uses bounded concurrency, per-query caching, timeouts, and stale-cache fallback.
• Updates command specifications, generated documentation, completion behavior, and end-to-end coverage.
• Includes follow-up fixes for linked plugin names, concurrent refreshes, and empty qualified searches.

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Nothing was compared, and so nothing was gated. No series appears on both sides: either the base has no measurements recorded, or the two were measured on different runner classes, which are deliberately not comparable — counts shift between machine types by more than a real regression does.

New, nothing to compare against: env on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, hook-env on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, ls on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, registry on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, startup on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143

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