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+---
+created: 2026-10-21T13:33:21.495Z
+title: Quiet plugin boot logs on console commands like --help
+area: framework
+severity: minor
+g15office: izelucbh
+files:
+  - ../sm-demo-app/plugins/golem15/paymentgateway/boot.go:129
+  - ../sm-demo-app/plugins/golem15/paymentgatewaysubscriptions/boot.go:86
+  - modules/diary
+  - modules/bonfire
+---
+
+## Problem
+
+Every console command prints the plugins' boot-time INFO records, even `--help`. From sm-demo-app, after phase 19.8 plans 01–03:
+
+```
+$ bin/demo serve --help
+time=2026-10-21T15:31:35.392+02:00 level=INFO msg="paymentgateway: operators registered" codes="[golem15.paymentgateway::lang.channels.cash golem15.paymentgateway::lang.channels.manualTransfer golem15.pgstripe::lang.operators.stripe]"
+time=2026-10-21T15:31:35.394+02:00 level=INFO msg="golem15.paymentgatewaysubscriptions: registries collected" subscriber_types=[user] gateways=[stripe]
+Serve the application HTTP API
+```
+
+Registration chatter belongs to `serve` (or `-v`), not to `--help`, `list` or a one-off command.
+
+Two causes:
+
+1. sm-paymentgateway-plugin (`boot.go:129`) and sm-paymentgatewaysubscriptions-plugin (`boot.go:86`) log through `slog.Default().Info`, not a diary component logger. That is why the lines are plain slog text (`time=… level=INFO msg=…`) and not diary console output. Plan 19.8-01 moved only the framework modules onto diary components, not the shared plugins.
+2. Plugins `Boot` before bonfire dispatches the command, so whatever a plugin logs at Info level during boot shows on every command.
+
+Not critical; found 2026-10-21 during phase 19.8.
+
+## Solution
+
+TBD. Options, possibly combined:
+
+- In the payment plugins, log these records at Debug through `diary.For("<component>")`. These are shared core plugins, so the change must not break anything.
+- Check whether diary installs itself as `slog.Default` early enough. If it did, these lines would at least be formatted and levelled through diary.
+- Let bonfire handle `--help`, `help` and `list` before plugin `Boot`, or give non-long-running commands a default console level that hides Info boot records unless `-v` is set.
+- Sweep the other shared plugins for `slog.Default()` calls in `Register`/`Boot`.