---
title: Plugin Commands
description: Use these commands to manage the SQLite Cloud plugins.
category: reference
status: publish
slug: plugin-commands
---

## DISABLE PLUGIN

Use this command to disable a plugin. Established connections will continue to have that plugin loaded. The disabled setting affects only new connections.

### Syntax

DISABLE PLUGIN **plugin_name**

### Privileges

```
PLUGIN
```

### Return

OK string or error value (see <a href="https://github.com/sqlitecloud/sdk/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md" target="_blank">SCSP</a> protocol).

### Example

```bash
> DISABLE PLUGIN sample.plugin
OK
```

## ENABLE PLUGIN

Use this command to re-enable a plugin previously disabled. Note that the newly enabled plugin is available only for new connections.

### Syntax

ENABLE PLUGIN **plugin_name**

### Privileges

```
PLUGIN
```

### Return

OK string or error value (see <a href="https://github.com/sqlitecloud/sdk/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md" target="_blank">SCSP</a> protocol).

### Example

```bash
> ENABLE PLUGIN sample.plugin
OK
```

## LIST PLUGINS

The LIST PLUGINS command returns a rowset that provides information about the installed native/SQLite extensions.

### Syntax

LIST PLUGINS

### Privileges

```
PLUGIN
```

### Return

A <a href="https://github.com/sqlitecloud/sdk/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md" target="_blank">Rowset</a> with the following columns:
* **name**: plugin name
* **type**: plugin type (SQLite or SQLiteCloud)
* **enabled**: 1 enabled, 0 disabled
* **version**: plugin version
* **copyright**: plugin copyright
* **description**: plugin description

The **version**, **copyright** and **description** columns are not NULL only in case of native SQLite Cloud extensions developed with the official plugins SDK.

### Example

```bash
> LIST PLUGINS
---------|--------|---------|---------|-----------|-------------|
 name    | type   | enabled | version | copyright | description |
---------|--------|---------|---------|-----------|-------------|
 crypto  | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 fileio  | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 fuzzy   | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 ipaddr  | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 math    | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 stats   | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 text    | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 unicode | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 uuid    | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 vsv     | SQLite | 1       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
 re      | SQLite | 0       | NULL    | NULL      | NULL        |
---------|--------|---------|---------|-----------|-------------|

```

## LOAD PLUGIN

In a running server, the LOAD PLUGIN command forces plugin_name to be loaded in the core services. A loaded plugin is also enabled by default and will be registered in newly established connections.

### Syntax

LOAD PLUGIN **plugin_name**

### Privileges

```
PLUGIN
```

### Return

OK string or error value (see <a href="https://github.com/sqlitecloud/sdk/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md" target="_blank">SCSP</a> protocol).

### Example

```bash
> LOAD PLUGIN sample.plugin
OK
```