chia-extension is a package manager designed specifically for Chia, making it easy to discover, install, and manage extensions for your Chia farming experience.

• Discover* and install extensions from various repositories.
• Manage installed extensions in a centralized manner.
• Automatically build and link extension artifacts to your Chia virtual environment.

1. Add chia-extension to your PATH.
2. cd to your chia-blockchain repo.
3. Run chia-extension.

To install an extension, run:

chia-extension -i <extension-repo-url> <branch (optional- will use default branch if none specified)>

For example:

chia-extension -i https://github.com/wallentx/almanac

This command clones the extension repository and prompts you to confirm the execution of required build commands. After confirmation, chia-extension builds the extension, links the artifacts to your Chia virtual environment, and installs the extension.

An example output when installing an extension:

📥 Cloning extension...✓
⚠️ The following commands will be executed within '$HOME/chia-blockchain/ext/extension-name':
source ../../activate && pip install some-package

Do you want to run these commands? [Y/n]
🏗️ Building... ✓
🔗 Linking artifacts...✓
🏁 Done!
📦 The following artifacts have been symlinked to your venv:
almanac
🧩 'almanac' has been installed.

chia-extension -i https://github.com/wallentx/bladebit cuda-compression