ZenStack V3 — Plugin Development

Plugins are a preview feature and may change in future releases.

A ZenStack plugin can extend the toolkit at three levels, independently or together:

1. Schema (ZModel) — contribute custom attributes (e.g. @password) and functions to the schema language.
2. CLI (code generation) — participate in zen generate to emit artifacts from the schema.
3. Runtime (ORM) — install on the client to intercept queries, hook CRUD lifecycle events, transform SQL, add custom methods, or compute fields.

ZenStack's plugin replaces Prisma's generator. To declare/consume plugins in a schema see zenstack-schema-modeling; this skill is about authoring them.

Packages: @zenstackhq/orm (runtime plugin types), @zenstackhq/sdk (CLI plugin types + ZModel AST). Install the SDK as a dev dependency: npm install -D @zenstackhq/sdk.

Declaring a plugin in ZModel