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title: "Guide: terms"
description: "smabar plugin reference: Guide: terms"
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# Guide: terms

> smabar plugin reference: Guide: terms

Canonical HTML version: https://smabar.com/docs/plugin-ref-guide-terms/ · Language: en · Publisher: smabar (https://smabar.com)

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[Build my plugin](https://smabar.com/build-my-plugin.md) · [All references](https://smabar.com/docs/plugin-ref-index.md) · [Install the ZIP](https://smabar.com/docs/install-plugin-zip.md)

Source: smabar 1.5.0, revision `a019f2563965edc37a5e8d84742ea1ff2fa6f824`. [Export metadata and checksums](https://smabar.com/plugin-reference/export.json).

This is an offline reference. MCP calls quoted below describe the connected workflow; use the linked documents and create local files instead. Live state, installed plugins, available providers and the user's active theme are unknown. Never claim a live check.

Read with [styling](https://smabar.com/docs/plugin-ref-styling.md) and [examples](https://smabar.com/docs/plugin-ref-examples.md).

## golden path

```json
"The six numbered steps; a build is complete when every step's done holds."
```

## surface

```json
"One render target of a tile: tile, flyout, hover, popup. bar_screenshot photographs each."
```

## sibling

```json
"Every plugin file except smabar.json: the entry script, views.py, locales/*.json. Siblings first, smabar.json LAST."
```

## clean start

```json
"A smabar.json write whose reply has status running, settled true and warnings.count 0."
```

## photograph

```json
"A bar_screenshot of one surface, taken after the last write and inspected as an image."
```

## cover

```json
"The tile recipe chosen from the nine ui_kit coverLayouts; a coverLayout enum in settingsSchema lets the user switch it."
```