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summary: "Bundled `oc-path` plugin: ships the `openclaw path` CLI for the `oc://` workspace-file addressing scheme"
read_when:
- You want to inspect or edit a single leaf inside a workspace file from the terminal
- You are scripting against workspace state and need a stable, kind-agnostic addressing scheme
- You are deciding whether to enable the optional `oc-path` plugin on a self-hosted Gateway
title: "OC Path plugin"
---
The bundled `oc-path` plugin adds the [`openclaw path`](/cli/path) CLI for the
`oc://` workspace-file addressing scheme. It ships in the OpenClaw repo under
`extensions/oc-path/` but is opt-in — install/build leaves it dormant until you
enable it.
`oc://` addresses point at a single leaf (or a wildcard set of leaves) inside
a workspace file. The plugin understands three kinds of files today:
- **markdown** (`.md`, `.mdx`): frontmatter, sections, items, fields
- **jsonc** (`.jsonc`, `.json5`, `.json`): comments and formatting preserved
- **jsonl** (`.jsonl`, `.ndjson`): line-oriented records
Self-hosters and editor extensions use the CLI to read or write a single leaf
without scripting against the SDK directly; agents and hooks treat it as a
deterministic substrate so byte-fidelity round-trips and the redaction
sentinel guard apply uniformly across kinds.
## Where it runs
The plugin runs **in-process inside the `openclaw` CLI** on the host where you
invoke the command. It does not need a running Gateway and does not open any
network sockets — every verb is a pure transform over a file you point it at.
The plugin metadata lives in `extensions/oc-path/openclaw.plugin.json`:
```json
{
"id": "oc-path",
"name": "OC Path",
"activation": {
"onStartup": false,
"onCommands": ["path"]
},
"commandAliases": [{ "name": "path", "kind": "cli" }]
}
```
`onStartup: false` keeps the plugin out of the Gateway hot path. `onCommands:
["path"]` tells the CLI to load the plugin lazily the first time you run
`openclaw path …`, so installs that never use the verb pay no cost.
## Enable
```bash
openclaw plugins enable oc-path
```
Restart the Gateway (if you run one) so the manifest snapshot picks up the new
state. Bare `openclaw path` invocations work immediately on the same host —
the CLI loads the plugin on demand.
Disable with:
```bash
openclaw plugins disable oc-path
```
## Dependencies
All parser dependencies are plugin-local — enabling `oc-path` does not pull
new packages into the core runtime:
| Dependency | Purpose |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `commander` | Subcommand wiring for `resolve`, `find`, `set`, `validate`, `emit`. |
| `jsonc-parser` | JSONC parse + leaf edits with comments and trailing commas kept. |
| `markdown-it` | Markdown tokenization for the section / item / field model. |
JSONL stays hand-rolled — line-oriented parsing is simpler than any
dependency, and the per-line JSONC parse already goes through `jsonc-parser`.
## What it provides
| Surface | Provided by |
| ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| `openclaw path` CLI | `extensions/oc-path/cli-registration.ts` |
| `oc://` parser / formatter | `extensions/oc-path/src/oc-path/oc-path.ts` |
| Per-kind parse / emit / edit | `extensions/oc-path/src/oc-path/{md,jsonc,jsonl}` |
| Universal resolve / find / set | `extensions/oc-path/src/oc-path/{resolve,find,edit}.ts` |
| Redaction-sentinel guard | `extensions/oc-path/src/oc-path/sentinel.ts` |
The CLI is the only public surface today. The substrate verbs are private to
the plugin; consumers use the CLI (or build their own plugin against the SDK).
## Relationship to other plugins
- **`memory-*`**: memory writes go through the memory plugins, not `oc-path`.
`oc-path` is a generic file substrate; memory plugins layer their own
semantics on top.
- **LKG**: `path` does not know about Last-Known-Good config restore. If a
file is LKG-tracked, the next `observe` call decides whether to promote or
recover; `set --batch` for atomic multi-set through the LKG promote/recover
lifecycle is planned alongside the LKG-recovery substrate.
## Safety
`set` writes raw bytes through the substrate's emit path, which applies the
redaction-sentinel guard automatically. A leaf carrying
`__OPENCLAW_REDACTED__` (verbatim or as a substring) is refused at write time
with `OC_EMIT_SENTINEL`. The CLI also scrubs the literal sentinel from any
human or JSON output it prints, replacing it with `[REDACTED]` so terminal
captures and pipelines never leak the marker.
## Related
- [`openclaw path` CLI reference](/cli/path)
- [Manage plugins](/plugins/manage-plugins)
- [Building plugins](/plugins/building-plugins)