From 93e0fb4842a9877a0bd051a446240d43f5da884e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nils Kruthoff <nils.kruthoff@dlr.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:28:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] set up handling of asset files from the plugin directory

---
 app/MindWork AI Studio/MindWork AI Studio.csproj           | 4 ++++
 app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginBase.cs    | 7 ++++++-
 .../Tools/PluginSystem/PluginFactory.Starting.cs           | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/MindWork AI Studio.csproj b/app/MindWork AI Studio/MindWork AI Studio.csproj
index 57d4d077..3e288717 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/MindWork AI Studio.csproj	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/MindWork AI Studio.csproj	
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
       <ProjectReference Include="..\SourceCodeRules\SourceCodeRules\SourceCodeRules.csproj" OutputItemType="Analyzer" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false"/>
     </ItemGroup>
 
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <Folder Include="Plugins\assistants\assets\" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+
     <!-- Read the meta data file -->
     <Target Name="ReadMetaData" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild">
         <Error Text="The ../../metadata.txt file was not found!" Condition="!Exists('../../metadata.txt')" />
diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginBase.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginBase.cs
index e6e8707a..828b0355 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginBase.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginBase.cs	
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ public abstract partial class PluginBase : IPluginMetadata
     
     /// <inheritdoc />
     public bool IsInternal { get; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The absolute path to the plugin directory (where `plugin.lua` lives).
+    /// </summary>
+    public string PluginPath { get; internal set; } = string.Empty;
     
     /// <summary>
     /// The issues that occurred during the initialization of this plugin.
@@ -494,4 +499,4 @@ public abstract partial class PluginBase : IPluginMetadata
     }
 
     #endregion
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginFactory.Starting.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginFactory.Starting.cs
index b2228bbf..18ef703f 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginFactory.Starting.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginFactory.Starting.cs	
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ public static partial class PluginFactory
 
         var code = await File.ReadAllTextAsync(pluginMainFile, Encoding.UTF8, cancellationToken);
         var plugin = await Load(meta.LocalPath, code, cancellationToken);
+        plugin.PluginPath = meta.LocalPath;
         if (plugin is NoPlugin noPlugin)
         {
             LOG.LogError($"Was not able to start plugin: Id='{meta.Id}', Type='{meta.Type}', Name='{meta.Name}', Version='{meta.Version}'. Reason: {noPlugin.Issues.First()}");
@@ -119,4 +120,4 @@ public static partial class PluginFactory
         LOG.LogError($"Was not able to start plugin: Id='{meta.Id}', Type='{meta.Type}', Name='{meta.Name}', Version='{meta.Version}'. Reasons: {string.Join("; ", plugin.Issues)}");
         return new NoPlugin($"Was not able to start plugin: Id='{meta.Id}', Type='{meta.Type}', Name='{meta.Name}', Version='{meta.Version}'. Reasons: {string.Join("; ", plugin.Issues)}");
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}