plugins.md

Plugins

ctfcli plugins are essentially additions to to the command line interface via dynamic class modifications.

ctfcli is an alpha project! The plugin interface is likely to change!

Installing a plugin

ctfcli expects plugins to be shared via git repositories. The ctf plugins install command will clone a given plugin repository to the plugin directory.

❯ ctf plugins install URL

Writing a new plugin

1. Locate your plugin directory

❯ ctf plugins dir
/Users/user/Library/Application Support/ctfcli/plugins

2. Create a new module

Create a new Python module with an __init__.py file inside of it. Inside of the __init__.py file you should specify a load function that takes a single argument (the pre-defined command classes)

.
└── plugin
    └── __init__.py

❯ cat plugin/__init__.py
from types import MethodType


def load(commands):
    pass

3. Define your plugin

from types import MethodType


def cow(self):
    a_cow = """
^__^
(oo)\_______
(__)\       )\\/\\
    ||----w |
    ||     ||
"""
    print(a_cow)


def load(commands):
    plugins = commands["plugins"]
    plugins.cow = MethodType(cow, plugins)

4. Run your new command

❯ ctf plugins cow
Loading /Users/user/Library/Application Support/ctfcli/plugins/plugin/__init__.py as plugin

^__^
(oo)\_______
(__)\       )\/\
    ||----w |
    ||     ||