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#428 Add extension info command for registry metadata

Opened by stack72 · 5/23/2026· Shipped 5/25/2026

Problem

There's no way to inspect a specific extension's full metadata from the registry. You can search to find extensions and list to see what's installed, but there's no command to view the details of a known extension — author, collective, repository URL, description, labels, version history, deprecation state, etc.

This is also a prerequisite for surfacing deprecation notices (#425/#426) and transfer redirects (#427) — swamp extension info is the natural place users would see that metadata.

Proposed Solution

Add a swamp extension info <name> command that fetches and displays full registry metadata for a specific extension.

swamp extension info @bad-at-naming/libvirt

Should display:

  • Extension name and collective
  • Description
  • Author / publisher
  • Repository URL (if declared in manifest)
  • Labels / tags
  • Platform support
  • Content types (models, vaults, drivers, etc.)
  • Version history (latest + available versions)
  • Deprecation state and successor pointer (when #425 lands)
  • Transfer redirect origin (when #427 lands)
  • Quality score

When the extension is not found in the registry, the command should not just show a flat error. Instead, guide the user toward discovery:

Extension @foo/bar not found in the registry.
Try: swamp extension search bar

Must support both log and json output modes.

  • #425 — Extension deprecation (CLI): deprecation state would surface in info output
  • #426 — Extension deprecation (swamp-club): parallel display on the web
  • #427 — Extension transfer: transfer origin would surface in info output
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5/25/2026, 6:14:08 PM

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03Sludge Pulse
stack72 assigned stack725/25/2026, 3:45:07 PM

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