Is your feature request related to a problem?

Plugin manifest parser chokes on UTF-16 BOM — today the workflow on delta-core requires an out-of-band step that breaks the editor flow and makes the API harder to type.

Describe the solution you'd like

Migrate the affected surface to follow the same contract as the rest of the toolchain, so composed flows stay consistent and predictable.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Keep the current implementation and document the seam.
• Ship a codemod that rewrites call sites at install time.

However, both would still leave the surface on a different contract from the rest of the stack, and would only delay the cleanup.

Labels: refactor