From b3648f0823a04a706c7bff3383ef8db4eef7c938 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Hugo=20H=C3=A4ggmark?= <hugo.haggmark@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 08:09:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: introduce toggle for decoupling plugins from bootdata
 (#114890)

chore: toggle for decoupling plugins from bootdata
---
 .../grafana-data/src/types/featureToggles.gen.ts |  5 +++++
 pkg/services/featuremgmt/registry.go             |  8 ++++++++
 pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.csv         |  1 +
 pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.json        | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/types/featureToggles.gen.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/types/featureToggles.gen.ts
index f95bb2d4356..3fab1ac8bd5 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/types/featureToggles.gen.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/types/featureToggles.gen.ts
@@ -1211,4 +1211,9 @@ export interface FeatureToggles {
   * Adds support for Kubernetes alerting historian APIs
   */
   kubernetesAlertingHistorian?: boolean;
+  /**
+  * Enables plugins decoupling from bootdata
+  * @default false
+  */
+  useMTPlugins?: boolean;
 }
diff --git a/pkg/services/featuremgmt/registry.go b/pkg/services/featuremgmt/registry.go
index b121f58cb42..6bdd7e26871 100644
--- a/pkg/services/featuremgmt/registry.go
+++ b/pkg/services/featuremgmt/registry.go
@@ -2000,6 +2000,14 @@ var (
 			Owner:           grafanaAlertingSquad,
 			RequiresRestart: true,
 		},
+		{
+			Name:         "useMTPlugins",
+			Description:  "Enables plugins decoupling from bootdata",
+			Stage:        FeatureStageExperimental,
+			Owner:        grafanaPluginsPlatformSquad,
+			FrontendOnly: true,
+			Expression:   "false",
+		},
 	}
 )
 
diff --git a/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.csv b/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.csv
index 1287a38870e..1a3f6d03a27 100644
--- a/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.csv
+++ b/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.csv
@@ -271,3 +271,4 @@ ttlPluginInstanceManager,experimental,@grafana/plugins-platform-backend,false,fa
 lokiQueryLimitsContext,experimental,@grafana/observability-logs,false,false,true
 rudderstackUpgrade,experimental,@grafana/grafana-frontend-platform,false,false,true
 kubernetesAlertingHistorian,experimental,@grafana/alerting-squad,false,true,false
+useMTPlugins,experimental,@grafana/plugins-platform-backend,false,false,true
diff --git a/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.json b/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.json
index ec1bce7682b..0b84e7b0bbd 100644
--- a/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.json
+++ b/pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.json
@@ -3558,6 +3558,20 @@
         "frontend": true
       }
     },
+    {
+      "metadata": {
+        "name": "useMTPlugins",
+        "resourceVersion": "1764913709691",
+        "creationTimestamp": "2025-12-05T05:48:29Z"
+      },
+      "spec": {
+        "description": "Enables plugins decoupling from bootdata",
+        "stage": "experimental",
+        "codeowner": "@grafana/plugins-platform-backend",
+        "frontend": true,
+        "expression": "false"
+      }
+    },
     {
       "metadata": {
         "name": "useMultipleScopeNodesEndpoint",
@@ -3674,4 +3688,4 @@
       }
     }
   ]
-}
+}
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