# Plugs: Add command missing

**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/plugs-add-command-missing/2223
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 22, 2025, 8:25am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/plugs-add-command-missing/2223 "2025-04-22T08:25:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![mgpoirot](https://community.silverbullet.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@mgpoirot](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mgpoirot)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 8:25am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/plugs-add-command-missing/2223/1 "2025-04-22T08:25:50Z")

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Hi all,

I was struggeling to install Plugs. All plug pages start with running the `Plugs: Add` command, but the only “Plugs” command that pops up for me is `Plugs: Update`. Is there supposed to be a `Plugs: Add` command?

 ![image](https://community.silverbullet.md/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f4ee6f6867f7dca69e643dee67aa17b58fc57c79.png)

**Additional info:**  
The documentation at [Plugs](http://silverbullet.md/Plugs) talks about a `_plugs` folder in my space. But that does not exist (yet)

```bash
user@server /opt/space$ cd _plug
-bash: cd: _plug: No such file or directory

```

[This silverbullet community question](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cannot-install-plugs/326/2) talks about the existance of a `PLUGS.md` file, but for me, it does not exist, and I wouldn’t know how I would go about Silverbullet recreating it.

**Temporary solution**  
It is possible to manually drop a github link in the `CONFIG` page:

```auto
config.set {
  plugs = {
    "github:joekrill/silverbullet-treeview/treeview.plug.js"
  },

```

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### Author: ![zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/zef/32/7_2.png) [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/plugs-add-command-missing/2223/2 "2025-04-22T11:52:11Z")

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Yeah, I couldn’t figure out how to reimplement the `Plug: Add` command within reason (it would have to patch effectively arbitrary Lua code). So I removed it for now. The way to add plugs now is to add them manually to your `CONFIG` (or elsewhere) as demonstrated here:

> **[CONFIG](https://silverbullet.md/CONFIG)**
>
> This is where you configure SilverBullet to your liking. See Config for a full list of configuration options.config.set {  plugs = {    "github:joekrill/silverbullet-treeview/treeview.plug.js"  },  actionButtons = { 

And then run the `Plugs: Update` command. Which is basically what the `Plug: Add` command did in the past.

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### Author: ![mgpoirot](https://community.silverbullet.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@mgpoirot](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mgpoirot)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/plugs-add-command-missing/2223/3 "2025-04-24T19:50:28Z")

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Thanks, good to know I’m not missing out!