Make malformed extensions fatal in Agent Plugins 1.1 - #23
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Treat a non-object `extensions` field like every other recognized-field schema violation. Keep unknown top-level fields as the sole non-fatal exception so clients can support forward compatibility without weakening strict authoring validation. Leave Agent Plugins 1.0 behavior unchanged, document the loading exception in the strict schema, and align the extension namespace, conformance, and failure wording.
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Summary
Agent Plugins 1.0 permits clients to continue loading when
extensionsis not an object, even though the manifest does not conform to the schema. This PR removes that exception from Agent Plugins 1.1, leaving unknown top-level fields as the sole non-fatal schema violation. The resulting loading rule distinguishes unrecognized fields from malformed recognized fields.Rationale
Unknown top-level fields remain non-fatal because they may be defined by a later Agent Plugins version. Reporting and ignoring them supports forward compatibility without assigning semantics to data the client does not understand. A non-object
extensionsvalue has no equivalent forward-compatibility role:extensionsis a recognized portable field, and its object shape establishes the boundary around client-specific namespaces. Treating it like every other recognized-field violation gives 1.1 a single exception with a single purpose.The schema remains closed rather than accepting unknown top-level fields, preserving typo detection and schema-driven completion. A separate permissive loading schema would duplicate the manifest structure and could drift from the authoring schema. Instead, the schema
$commentexplains how clients apply the unknown-field loading exception while validating against the strict schema.Compatibility
The published 1.0 contract is unchanged. A client that supports both versions selects the appropriate loading behavior from the declared
$schemavalue. This affects only schema-invalid 1.1 manifests; conforming plugins are unaffected.Related: agentplugins#77
Validation
git diff --checkschemas/1.1.0/plugin.schema.jsonas JSONspec/1.1.0.md