Dec 18 Studios Plugins

A Tauri 2 desktop manager for Dec 18 Studios OFX plugins. Installs, updates, and manages plugin bundles across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Features

• Catalog-driven plugin browsing with categories, search, and sorting
• One-click install/update/uninstall for OFX plugin bundles
• SHA256 verification of all downloaded packages
• Host process detection (blocks install while Resolve/Nuke are running)
• Backup and rollback on failed updates
• Auto-updater for the manager app itself
• Donation link integration

Current Plugins

• PhotoChemist — 43-band spectral film emulation (CUDA, Metal, OpenCL)

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js (LTS)
• Rust toolchain
• Platform build tools (Xcode CLI on macOS, Visual Studio Build Tools on Windows)

Development

npm install
npm run tauri:dev

Production Build

npm run tauri:build

GitHub Setup

1. Create the repository

Create dec18studios/Dec18-Plugin-Manager on GitHub.

2. Enable GitHub Pages

Settings > Pages > Source: GitHub Actions.

3. Generate Tauri signing keys

npx @tauri-apps/cli signer generate -w ~/.tauri/dec18studios.key

4. Set repository secrets

Secret	Purpose
TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY	Contents of the .key file
TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD	Password used during key generation

5. Update the public key

Replace REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_TAURI_SIGNING_PUBKEY in src-tauri/tauri.conf.json with the generated public key.

6. Push and build

git init && git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit"
git remote add origin git@github.com:dec18studios/Dec18-Plugin-Manager.git
git push -u origin main

The CI workflows will build the app for all platforms and deploy the catalog to GitHub Pages.

Adding a New Plugin

1. Create a manager-release-config.json for the plugin (see docs/plugins/photochemist/manager-release-config.json as a template).
2. Place it in docs/plugins/<pluginId>/manager-release-config.json.
3. Create a GitHub release in the plugin repo with platform assets matching the assetPattern regexes.
4. Add a sample fixture in tools/fixtures/<pluginId>-releases.sample.json.
5. Run npm run generate:plugin-manifests to regenerate manifests.
6. Add an embedded manifest reference in src-tauri/src/catalog.rs for offline fallback.

Architecture

See PLUGIN_MANAGER_DEVELOPMENT_NOTES.md for detailed architecture, workflow, and deployment notes.

macOS Note

Plugin installation clears quarantine flags on unsigned bundles. Once plugins are properly signed and notarized, this behavior can be removed.