[FEATURE]: Restore the LPU/Plugin tab button menu in the Status popover

Summary

• I have searched for existing issues before filing this

OpenCode lost its LPU/Plugin tab button menu from the top-right status popover. This was a key discoverability and management surface for growing OpenCode's power deterministically through plugins.

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Problem

The Status popover (top-right of the GUI) previously had at least three tabs — MCP, LSP, and Plugins — with live status information for each. The Plugins tab showed a list of loaded plugins with metadata, and the broader LPU/Plugin tab button gave direct access to plugin management without touching opencode.json.

This menu is now absent or regressed, making it impossible to:

• See which plugins are currently loaded at a glance
• Diagnose plugin loading failures without CLI/API calls
• Discover plugin health and manage them from the GUI

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Evidence of Prior Art

• #18422 (closed) — "Feature request: manage plugins directly from Status popover" — accepted design direction, feature existed conceptually
• #11494 (closed) — "Feature Request: Plugin Preference Tabs - Extend SDK for Native Desktop Settings Integration" — broader plugin-preference-tab vision filed and accepted
• #41529 (closed) — "Desktop App 1.18.16: Status Popover → Plugins tab shows 'Plugins configured in opencode.json' despite 14 plugins loaded on server" — regression confirmed; root cause is a race condition in the SolidJS child store cache (refetchOnMount: false)
• #46130 (open) — "TUI does not render after adding plugin" — active plugin UI issue

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What Was Lost

The top-right status popover with its Plugins tab provided:

1. Live plugin list with names and status indicators
2. A GUI path to plugin management without editing config files
3. A discoverable surface for users onboarding plugins
4. The broader LPU/Plugin tab button for direct menu access

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Request

1. Restore the Plugins tab in the status popover as a minimum viable fix
2. Fix the race condition identified in #41529 — remove refetchOnMount: false for the config query, or add a server-sent config event on server.connected to trigger refetch
3. Consider reinstating the full LPU/Plugin tab button menu as a more discoverable entry point for power users

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Environment

• OS: Windows 11 (primary), likely affects all platforms
• OpenCode version: 1.18.16+ (regression window)

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Related Issues

• #18422 (closed) — original "manage plugins from Status popover" feature request
• #11494 (closed) — "Plugin Preference Tabs - Extend SDK for Native Desktop Settings Integration"
• #41529 (closed) — same Plugins tab regression, closed on compliance grounds
• #46130 (open) — "TUI does not render after adding plugin"

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