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Hovering a portal card in the settings app reveals an action next to the portal's address; it opens a dialog with a ready-to-paste prompt that walks a coding agent through installing the NocoBase CLI, registering this instance and pulling the portal source. The portal manager offers no extension slot, so the button is attached from the outside: a provider watches the document, inserts an empty mount point into each card and renders the button into it through a React portal, which keeps it in this plugin's React tree and out of the card's click handling.
nocobase-plugin-portal-agent-connect (demo)
A sample NocoBase 3.x plugin that hands an AI Portal over to a coding agent.
Demo quality: written for a live demo instance, not maintained as a product. Read it as a worked example of extending the Client V2 settings app from a third-party plugin.
Hovering a portal card in Settings → Portal manager reveals a >_ button
next to the portal's address. It opens a dialog with a ready-to-paste prompt:
the agent reading it installs the NocoBase CLI, registers this instance, pulls
the portal source and runs it locally against the instance.
Built for demo instances handed to someone else. Nothing here is needed on an instance whose users already have the CLI set up.
Install
Upload the .tgz in Plugin manager → Add new → Upload and enable it. On a
Docker instance, two more steps are needed once:
# client assets of uploaded plugins are only served after this
docker exec <container> sh -lc 'cd /app/nocobase && yarn nocobase client:extract'
# enabling reloads the app object but not Node's module cache
docker restart <container>
Only AI Portals get the button; no-code portals are left alone.
The instance address
The prompt has to carry an address the reader can reach, which is not always the one in your own address bar. Resolution order:
- whatever is typed into Instance address in the dialog, remembered in that browser;
PORTAL_AGENT_PUBLIC_URL, read from the server environment;window.location.origin.
For a demo behind a tunnel, set on the container:
PORTAL_AGENT_PUBLIC_URL=https://demo.example.com
Access tokens
The prompt tells the reader to create their own API key in Settings → API
keys and leaves a <YOUR_TOKEN> placeholder. No credential is ever generated
into the clipboard.
How the button gets onto someone else's page
The portal manager belongs to @nocobase/plugin-multi-portal and offers no
extension slot, so this plugin registers an application provider that watches
the document, drops an empty <span> at the end of each card's address line and
renders the button into it through a React portal. The button therefore lives in
this plugin's own React tree: it inherits the settings theme, and its clicks
never reach the card's "open this portal" handler.
That also means it depends on the card markup. If a future release changes it, the button quietly stops appearing - nothing else breaks.
Build
yarn build @light/plugin-portal-agent-connect --tar
from a NocoBase monorepo with this package under packages/plugins/@light/.
The tarball lands in storage/tar/.
Development notes
copyText falls back to a hidden textarea because navigator.clipboard does
not exist over plain HTTP, which is how demos behind a tunnel are usually
served.
License
MIT. NocoBase itself is licensed separately - see nocobase.com/agreement.