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Adding docs for creating new crane transform plugin designed for humans as well as AI agents.

Fixes: #27

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  • Documentation
    • Added repository guidance covering its purpose, structure, index and manifest formats, plugin registration, and development workflow.
    • Added a comprehensive guide for creating Crane transform plugins, including communication protocols, supported response types, project setup, testing, building, releasing, and common pitfalls.
    • Documented plugin metadata, optional configuration fields, resource conversion patterns, and platform-specific binary conventions.
    • Updated the README with a link to the new plugin creation guide.

Adding docs for creating new crane transform plugin designed for humans
as well as AI agents.

Fixes: migtools#27

Signed-off-by: Marek Aufart <maufart@redhat.com>
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Added repository guidance and a linked guide for creating Crane transform plugins. The guide covers the JSON protocol, plugin APIs, implementation patterns, resource conversion, testing, builds, releases, operational constraints, and related repositories.

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Crane transform plugin documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Repository guidance and documentation entrypoint
AGENTS.md, README.md
Documents the plugin index structure and links to the transform plugin creation guide.
Plugin protocol and implementation patterns
docs/creating-crane-transform-plugin.md
Defines plugin contracts, the CLI harness, optional fields, naming rules, and simple whiteout or patch plugin patterns.
Resource conversion and release workflow
docs/creating-crane-transform-plugin.md
Documents resource conversion, generated resources, dependencies, tests, builds, releases, operational constraints, and references.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to efdf3

The guide’s Go module examples do not match the required crane-lib toolchain, so following them may cause new plugins to fail during build. Correct the examples and document the required Go version before merging.

Suggested reviewers: psrvere, istein1, stillalearner, midays

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding documentation to help create new plugins, including support for AI coding assistants.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The pull request adds comprehensive Crane transform plugin documentation and guidance for human developers and AI coding assistants, satisfying issue #27.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within scope by documenting plugin creation, linking the guide from README.md, and describing repository conventions in AGENTS.md.
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Actionable comments posted: 6

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AGENTS.md (1)

49-62: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document sha as optional. crane accepts manifests without sha, and plugin-manager downloads binaries from uri without checksum verification. Do not present sha as required. State that it is optional or remove it from the template.

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In `@AGENTS.md` around lines 49 - 62, Update the binaries manifest template in
AGENTS.md so sha is explicitly optional, reflecting that plugin-manager can
download from uri without checksum verification. Retain the existing sha
examples only as optional fields, or remove them from the template; do not
document sha as required.
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Inline comments:
In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Line 11: Update all four fenced code blocks to include language identifiers:
use text or plaintext for the repository-tree fence in AGENTS.md (line 11-11)
and project-structure fence in docs/creating-crane-transform-plugin.md (line
121-121), and use go for the simple-plugin go.mod fence (line 343-343) and
conversion-plugin go.mod fence (line 358-358).
- Line 5: Update the repository description in AGENTS.md to acknowledge that it
includes documentation such as docs/ alongside YAML plugin manifests, while
clarifying that plugin implementation source code is not present. Replace the
inaccurate “contains only YAML manifest files” wording without changing the
description of the manifests or their binary download URLs.

In `@docs/creating-crane-transform-plugin.md`:
- Around line 184-197: Update the resource filter before the switch on
u.GetKind() at docs/creating-crane-transform-plugin.md:184-197 to require the
complete expected GVK before applying whiteouts or patches. At
docs/creating-crane-transform-plugin.md:280-283, restrict the filter to group
source.api.io, version v1, and kind SourceKind to match the
sourcev1.SourceResource unmarshalling; leave unrelated resources unchanged.
- Around line 304-314: Update the conversion flow around toUnstructured so
targetUnstructured receives the target API’s apiVersion and kind before being
placed in NewResources, covering cases where convert leaves TypeMeta unset.
Preserve the existing GVK assertions in the conversion test.
- Around line 189-203: Update the transform logic before constructing the RFC
6902 remove patch so it checks whether metadata.annotations["unwanted-key"]
exists; when absent, return an empty transform.PluginResponse immediately, and
retain the existing patch creation and response behavior when the annotation is
present.
- Line 80: Update the Pattern B dependency setup in the NewResources
documentation to be reproducible: specify the required crane-lib checkout and
pinned revision, or replace the undocumented ../crane-lib path with a published
fork/module version that includes NewResources. Ensure a copied project can
resolve and build the dependency without relying on an unspecified local
directory.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 49-62: Update the binaries manifest template in AGENTS.md so sha
is explicitly optional, reflecting that plugin-manager can download from uri
without checksum verification. Retain the existing sha examples only as optional
fields, or remove them from the template; do not document sha as required.
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In `@docs/creating-crane-transform-plugin.md`:
- Line 80: Update both go.mod examples in the documentation to require Go 1.24.0
or later, and document the required Go 1.24.4 toolchain policy specified by
crane-lib. Replace the outdated crane-lib version guidance with instructions
consistent with these requirements.
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