chore: enhance publish workflow and plugin initialization

- Added steps to bundle and verify plugins in the publish workflow, ensuring that at least one bundled plugin is present.
- Refactored plugin initialization logic to streamline the process of copying bundled plugins to the installation directory.

Author: robinebers

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@ jobs:
         with:
           bun-version: "latest"
       - run: bun install
+      - name: Bundle plugins
+        run: bun run bundle:plugins
+      - name: Verify bundled plugins
+        run: |
+          COUNT=$(find src-tauri/resources/bundled_plugins -maxdepth 2 -name plugin.json | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
+          if [[ "$COUNT" -lt 1 ]]; then
+            echo "No bundled plugins found under src-tauri/resources/bundled_plugins."
+            exit 1
+          fi
 
       - name: Validate release tag
         run: |

docs/specs/2026-02-02-bundled-plugins-ci.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+2026-02-02
+
+# Bundled plugins in CI
+
+## Goal
+- Ensure publish workflow bundles plugins into `src-tauri/resources/bundled_plugins/` before `tauri build`.
+- Fail fast if no bundled plugins are present.
+
+## Non-goals
+- Change plugin runtime or plugin discovery logic.
+
+## Plan
+1. Run `bun run bundle:plugins` in `publish.yml` before `tauri-action`.
+2. Verify at least one `plugin.json` exists under `src-tauri/resources/bundled_plugins/*/`.

docs/specs/2026-02-02-bundled-plugins-runtime-sync.md

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+2026-02-02
+
+# Bundled plugins runtime sync
+
+## Goal
+- Ensure bundled plugins are always present and updated in the app data plugins dir.
+- Avoid empty plugin lists when the install dir has stray files.
+
+## Non-goals
+- Delete or remove user-installed plugins.
+- Add remote plugin updates.
+
+## Plan
+1. Always copy bundled plugins from app resources into `{appDataDir}/plugins` on startup.
+2. Copy merges overwrite existing bundled plugin files but does not delete extra files.

src-tauri/src/plugin_engine/mod.rs

@@ -21,11 +21,9 @@ pub fn initialize_plugins(
         log::warn!("failed to create install dir {}: {}", install_dir.display(), err);
     }
 
-    if is_dir_empty(&install_dir) {
-        let bundled_dir = resolve_bundled_dir(resource_dir);
-        if bundled_dir.exists() {
-            copy_dir_recursive(&bundled_dir, &install_dir);
-        }
+    let bundled_dir = resolve_bundled_dir(resource_dir);
+    if bundled_dir.exists() {
+        copy_dir_recursive(&bundled_dir, &install_dir);
     }
 
     let plugins = manifest::load_plugins_from_dir(&install_dir);