nc://cell-generator

Cell Generator: scaffold a complete Nodecode cell — system, declaration, handlers, tests — from a short description, and add a tool or a command to one it wrote. A Nodecode rewrite of iruzen-dono/hermes-plugin-gen by iruzen-dono.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the cell generator cell", or run nodecode add nc://cell-generator.

Set it up

Nothing is required.

• directory — where a scaffolded folder goes. Empty means this home's cells/, the folder the next boot loads.
• max_tools — how many tools one scaffold may declare (default 8).

Use it

Ask for a cell: "make a cell called weather with a lookup tool that takes a city". The agent calls cell_scaffold, and the folder it writes is a cell like any other:

• cell_add_tool splices one more tool — schema, handler, :tool clause — into a cell it wrote.
• cell_add_command splices one more slash command into one.

The handlers a fresh cell gets answer a placeholder: edit cell.lisp to make them answer for real, then (restart-cells "nodecode-<name>") loads it now instead of at the next boot.

A name is letters, digits and dashes — no dot, no slash — so a scaffolded folder is always inside the cells folder, and a folder already there is refused, never overwritten. A tool or command added later goes in at a marker line the scaffold writes, so a hand-written cell with no markers refuses by name instead of being half-patched.

What is in it

License

MIT. The original is Copyright (c) 2026 Iruzen: see LICENSE and NOTICE.