Concepts

This section gives you the mental models you need to use Work IQ Dev Tools effectively. The goal isn’t to document every flag — that lives in the CLI Reference. It’s to give you the why behind the commands so you can predict how Work IQ Dev Tools will behave in a new situation.

Read these in roughly this order:

Plugins — the app package you build and ship, composed of skills, connectors, and optional declarative agents
Build a Plugin — WIQD’s end-to-end build, improve, preview, and publish flow
Declarative agents — the conversational component a plugin can include
Agent component lifecycle — agent-specific authoring, evaluation, and existing wiqd agent projects
Host vs extensions — how Work IQ Dev Tools are structured under the hood
Environments — how local, dev, staging, and prod work
Validation & MVL — offline source, final-package and Marketplace checks through wiqd plugin validate
Exit codes & output — how to script Work IQ Dev Tools safely
VS Code extension — live diagnostics in your editor

If you’re brand-new, start with Getting Started instead — that walks you through installation and your first plugin before circling back here for depth.