CLI Overview

The universal-plugin CLI transforms a canonical .plugin/plugin.json into vendor-specific manifests.

Invocation

Always pin to an exact version in hooks and CI:

# One-off
npx universal-plugin@latest --help

# Scripting (pin)
npx universal-plugin@$(npm view universal-plugin version) <command>

Commands

Command	Purpose
build	Generate vendor manifests from .plugin/plugin.json

Output formats

Most subcommands accept --format:

Value	Consumer	Output
(default)	Humans	Tables, aligned fields
--format json	Scripts / pipelines	Flat JSON

--json is a deprecated alias for --format json.