Initialize Development Tools

Before start to develop Dify plugins please prepare the following prerequisites:

• Dify plugin scaffolding tool

• Python environment, version ≥ 3.12

The Dify plugin development scaffolding tool, also known as dify-plugin-daemon, can be regarded as a plugin development SDK.

1. Installing the Dify Plugin Development Scaffolding Tool

Visit the Dify plugin GitHub page and select and download the version suitable for your operating system.

Using macOS with M-series chips as an example: Download the dify-plugin-darwin-arm64 file from the project address mentioned above. Then, in the terminal, navigate to the file's location and grant it execution permissions:

chmod +x dify-plugin-darwin-arm64

Run the following command to verify successful installation.

./dify-plugin-darwin-arm64 version

If the system shows an "Apple cannot verify" error, go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Security, and click the "Open Anyway" button.

After running the command, the installation is successful, if the terminal returns version information like v0.0.1-beta.15.

Tips:

If you want to use the dify command globally in your system to run the scaffolding tool, it's recommended to rename the binary file to dify and copy it to the /usr/local/bin system path.

After configuration, entering the dify version command in the terminal will output the version number.

2. Initialize Python Environment

For detailed instructions, please refer to the Python installation tutorial. Python version 3.12 or higher is required.

3. Develop plugins

Please refer to the following content for examples of different types of plugin development.

Tool Plugin

Model Plugin

Agent Strategy Plugin

Extension Plugin

Bundle