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.

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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.

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2. Initialize Python Environment

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

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3. Develop plugins

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

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