After completing plugin development, you can package your plugin project as a local file and share it with others. Once the plugin file is obtained, it can be installed into a Dify Workspace. This guide will show you how to package a plugin project as a local file and how to install plugins using local files.

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Prerequisites

You’ll need the Dify plugin development scaffolding tool for packaging plugins. Download the tool from the official GitHub releases page.

See the Initialize Development Tools tutorial for dependency installation and configuration steps.

Select and download the version appropriate for your operating system from the release assets.

Using macOS with M-series chips as an example, download the dify-plugin-darwin-arm64 file, then navigate to the file’s location in terminal and grant execution permissions:

chmod +x dify-plugin-darwin-arm64

For global use of the scaffolding tool, it’s recommended to rename the binary file to dify and copy it to the /usr/local/bin system path.

After configuration, enter the dify version command in terminal to verify version number output.

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Packaging Plugins

After completing plugin project development, ensure remote connection testing is done. To package plugins, navigate to the parent directory of your plugin project and run the following packaging command:

cd ../
dify plugin package ./your_plugin_project

After running the command, a file with .difypkg extension will be generated in the current path.

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Installing Plugins

Visit the Dify plugin management page, click Install Plugin → Install via Local File in the top right corner, or drag and drop the plugin file to a blank area of the page to install.

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Publishing Plugins

You can share the plugin file with others or upload it to the internet for download.

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