[](#contributors-) AYON Core addon ======== AYON core provides the base building blocks for all other AYON addons and integrations and is responsible for discovery and initialization of other addons. - Some of its key functions include: - It is used as the main command line handler in [ayon-launcher](https://github.com/ynput/ayon-launcher) application. - Provides publishing plugins that are available to all AYON integrations. - Defines the base classes for new pipeline integrations - Provides global hooks - Provides universally available loaders and launcher actions - Defines pipeline API used by other integrations - Provides all graphical tools for artists - Defines AYON QT styling - A bunch more things Together with [ayon-launcher](https://github.com/ynput/ayon-launcher) , they form the base of AYON pipeline and is one of few compulsory addons for AYON pipeline to be useful in a meaningful way. AYON-core is a successor to OpenPype repository (minus all the addons) and still in the process of cleaning up of all references. Please bear with us during this transitional phase.