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truthound plugins disable

Disable (deactivate) an active plugin.

Synopsis

truthound plugins disable <NAME>

Arguments

Argument Required Description
NAME Yes Plugin name to disable

Description

The plugin disable command deactivates an active plugin:

  1. Deactivates the plugin
  2. Keeps it loaded but inactive
  3. Preserves configuration for re-enabling

State Transitions

active → inactive

Examples

Disable Plugin

truthound plugins disable my-validator

Output: 

Disabled plugin: my-validator

Verify After Disable

# Disable the plugin
truthound plugins disable my-validator

# Verify state changed
truthound plugins list

Output: 

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name            ┃ Version ┃ Type      ┃ State    ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ my-validator    │ 0.1.0   │ validator │ inactive │
└─────────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────┘

Disable and Re-enable

# Disable temporarily
truthound plugins disable my-validator

# Re-enable when needed
truthound plugins enable my-validator

Use Cases

1. Temporary Deactivation

# Disable for testing without the plugin
truthound plugins disable my-validator

# Run validation without the plugin
truthound check data.csv

# Re-enable when done
truthound plugins enable my-validator

2. Troubleshooting

# Disable suspected problematic plugin
truthound plugins disable buggy-plugin

# Check if issue persists
truthound check data.csv

# If issue resolved, plugin was the cause

3. Selective Validation

# Disable plugins not needed for this run
truthound plugins disable extra-validator

# Run validation with fewer plugins
truthound check data.csv

# Re-enable after
truthound plugins enable extra-validator

4. A/B Testing

# Test with plugin
truthound check data.csv --output with-plugin.json

# Disable plugin
truthound plugins disable my-validator

# Test without plugin
truthound check data.csv --output without-plugin.json

# Compare results

Error Handling

Plugin Not Found or Error

truthound plugins disable unknown-plugin

Output: 

Error disabling plugin: Plugin 'unknown-plugin' not found.

Difference from Unload

Action disable unload
State after inactive discovered
Loaded in memory Yes No
Quick re-enable Yes No (requires load)
Use case Temporary Cleanup

Exit Codes

Code Condition
0 Success
1 Error (plugin not found, disable failed)

See Also