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
- Open the plugin manager. From Settings → Plugins, browse the registry of available plugins — format readers/writers, segmenters, OCR/ASR engines, and tool packs.
- 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.
- Use it immediately. New formats appear in the project's content view, and new tools appear in the flow editor's palette — ready to run against the project's content.
- Keep current. The manager flags updates; one click pulls the latest version.
Why the desktop
Discovery and one-click install are the GUI'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.
Next
- Build a flow visually — use the new tools a plugin provides.