Bundled plugins

Nine plugins ship with the app. All are first-party, all are signed with the Grid Console publisher key, and all run under the same process sandbox as anything you install. The table is the registry index the app itself reads.

What ships

None of the nine asks for network, filesystem, shell or card write, so all nine share one locked-down process. claude-provider and copilot-provider each declare permissions.spawn as well, naming the program Grid runs on their behalf, and that is a separate question from the sandbox: a spawn block describes a program that runs outside the plugin's process altogether, as you, fenced by the trust and approval rules a spawn contract carries (see Adding a provider). It grants the plugin's own process nothing, so it is no part of what decides which plugins share one. Each plugin is on by default and can be switched off in Settings › Plugins. Switching a provider off leaves the built-in fallback prompts in place, so a card still starts with a message.

What each one really owns

The bundled set is part way through the move from core to plugins, and it says so. Three of the nine change behaviour today; the rest are descriptors that name a subsystem while its code stays in core. Spawning itself is nearly out of core. copilot-provider was the first provider whose own manifest (a signed permissions.spawn block rather than a line in core) said how to start it, tail its transcript and wire its hooks. claude-provider now says the same. codex-provider is the last one core still starts itself, and not for want of a contract: a Codex session is a WebSocket App Server bridge Grid opens, observes and sends turns through, which "run this program with these arguments" cannot describe.

Core features that are not plugins

The phone companion is a core surface of the app and cannot be swapped for a plugin in this build.

Tiers

No tier is checked when a plugin loads. Every bundled plugin runs on every plan, writing and sideloading your own is free on every plan including Free, and the paid plans add no plugins today. What they do add is in pricing.

Source

Every bundled plugin and the @gridconsole/plugin SDK are open source under Apache-2.0 at github.com/gridconsole/gridconsole-plugins. Each plugin is its own folder with a manifest and an entry point, so the fastest way to write your own is to copy the closest one. The signed artefacts and the index the app reads are published at gridconsole.dev/registry/index.json.