Plugins

Use this skill when a Litestar app needs plugin-driven behavior, or when the task touches one of the model ecosystems that Litestar integrates through plugins, DTO factories, or OpenAPI schema plugins.

Current Docs Mapping

The links previously listed for this skill are partly stale in the latest Litestar docs. Use the current structure below:

• Core plugin architecture is documented at usage/plugins/index.html.
• SQLAlchemy plugin docs moved under usage/databases/sqlalchemy/plugins/....
• Piccolo is documented in latest docs as PiccoloDTO usage under usage/databases/piccolo.html, not as a separate general plugin page.
• Pydantic and attrs support in latest docs is primarily reference-driven under reference/plugins/....
• Dataclass and msgspec support in latest docs is documented as DTO factories under reference/dto/..., not as standalone plugin usage pages.
• Latest docs do not expose a dedicated TypedDict plugin page. Treat TypedDict as a typing/schema concern unless project-local code proves otherwise.

Do not blindly follow old usage/plugins/*.html URLs for every ecosystem. Several now return 404 in the latest docs.

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