Getting started

If you're new to cleat plugins, work through these two pages in order:

1. Quickstart — write your first plugin in 10 minutes using cleat's built-in Create New Plugin wizard. End-to-end: pick a template, edit it, watch it run against a real connection, then submit it to the registry.
2. Plugin lifecycle — how cleat schedules and runs your plugin. Covers the collect → transform → render flow, polling vs streaming, the four data_type values, and where each runs in cleat's threading model.

Once you've got a plugin running, drill into the Lua API reference for the full surface of host calls, widget primitives, and data-store queries available to your code.