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Install and manage plugins

For the concept, see Plugins; this recipe walks the desktop plugin manager, the visual equivalent of kapi plugin install.

Goal: add new formats and tools to a project, for example the kapi-sat segmenter for ML sentence segmentation or the kapi-pdfium PDF reader, without touching a terminal.

Steps​

  1. Open the plugin manager. From Settings → Plugins, browse the registry of available plugins: format readers and writers, segmenters, OCR and ASR engines, and tool packs.
  2. Install. Click Install on a plugin (for example the kapi-sat segmenter). The app downloads and verifies it, then registers the formats and tools it adds.
  3. Use it immediately. New formats appear in the project's content view, and new tools appear in the palette under Toolbox → Flows, ready to run against the project's content. Opening a file whose format needs a plugin offers to install it there and then.
  4. Keep current. The manager flags updates; one click pulls the latest version.

Why the desktop​

Discovery and one-click install are the app's strength: you see what a plugin adds, install it with verification handled for you, and the new capabilities show up in the editor without re-reading docs. The underlying plugin model is identical to the CLI's: the same plugins, the same registry.

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