Crash Course in building your First Gradle Plugin

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Step‑by‑step guide to build, test and publish a real Gradle plugin using Kotlin DSL: set up build.gradle.kts with the Java Gradle plugin and Gradle API, implement an Extension (abstract class), a Task (inputs + @TaskAction) and the Plugin (register extension and task), unit test with ProjectBuilder, run functional tests with Gradle TestKit (~9s), publish to the Gradle Plugin Portal or Maven local, and a working example that creates a module dependency graph as Mermaid and updates README.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:50Why build a Gradle plugin
3. 3:55What is a Gradle plugin
4. 5:41Plugin project setup
5. 8:10Plugin implementation basics
6. 15:16Testing your plugin
7. 21:33Publishing your plugin
8. 26:08Real-world plugin example
9. 31:49Next steps and resources

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