SharpClaw Module Development Kit

Module Development Kit is the SharpClaw module for creating, inspecting, building, verifying, and hot-loading other SharpClaw modules while the host is running. It exposes the mdk tool prefix, keeps its runtime shape as a .NET sidecar module, and uses the public SharpClaw.Contracts package as its host contract boundary.

Install the package into a SharpClaw host the same way as any runtime-loadable SharpClaw module package. The NuGet package carries its runtime payload under sharpclaw/, including module.json, the module assembly, dependency file, and non-framework dependency assemblies required by the sidecar loader.

dotnet add package SharpClaw.Modules.ModuleDev --version 0.1.1-beta

After the host loads the module, agents can call tools such as scaffold, file read and write, build, runtime verification, load and reload, process inspection, SDK reference lookup, task authoring support, and conversation steering workflows through the mdk prefix. The module keeps file writes scoped to SharpClaw's external module workspace and validates module IDs, relative paths, file names, and build project extensions before touching disk or starting dotnet build.

The package is AGPL-3.0-only. Module authors should keep their own modules behind SharpClaw.Contracts interfaces and package references instead of referencing SharpClaw runtime internals or host persistence projects directly.