#10292·insomnia

Folder plugin actions (requestGroupActions) broken

Author: tomasz-jankowskiCreated Jul 23, 2026Updated Aug 13, 2026
LabelsB-bugS-unverified

Expected Behavior

  • Opening a folder's "..." menu shows a "Plugins" section listing any requestGroupActions the plugin exports.
  • Clicking a plugin action runs it and its context.app.dialog() call renders the plugin's UI.

Actual Behavior

The folder menu never fetches plugin actions - no "Plugins" section ever appears, and no getRequestGroupActions bridge call is logged when the menu opens (confirmed via --enable-logging=stderr). Calling window.main.plugins.getRequestGroupActions() directly from DevTools works fine and returns the plugin correctly, so the bridge/plugin loading isn't the issue - the menu's fetch-on-open just never fires. Invoking the action anyway (via window.main.plugins.executeAction(...)) runs it, but context.app.dialog(title, domNode, options) never renders. It sends body (a live DOM node, created in the isolated plugin BrowserWindow) through two IPC hops to the main window, which still expects a live element ( in entry.client.tsx). DOM nodes aren't structured-cloneable across Electron IPC, so it throws: Uncaught (in promise) Error: An object could not be cloned.

Reproduction Steps

  1. Install a plugin exporting requestGroupActions with an action that calls context.app.dialog(). Confirm it's enabled in Preferences → Plugins. (tested with insomnia-plugin-run-requests-parallel
  2. Open a folder's "..." context menu → no "Plugins" section appears, and no getRequestGroupActions invocation is logged.
  3. From the main window's DevTools console, confirm the bridge itself works:
window.main.plugins.getRequestGroupActions().then(r => console.log(r))
  1. Reproduce the dialog failure directly:
context.app.dialog('test', document.createElement('div'), {})
   // → Uncaught (in promise) Error: An object could not be cloned.

Is there an existing issue for this?

Which sync method do you use?

  • Git sync.
  • Insomnia Cloud sync.
  • Local only

Additional Information

No response

Insomnia Version

13.0.2

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 11 Pro Version 10.0.26200 Build 26200

Installation method

insomnia.rest

Last Known Working Insomnia version

No response