Manages discovery, loading, configuration, and initialization of both input source plugins and extraction plugins. It decouples the core capture engine from plugin-specific logic, providing a uniform interface that can be reused across different monitoring tools. The pattern is a clean plugin manager with lifecycle management, error handling, and configuration parsing.

Implements the core chisel framework that loads Lua scripts and binds them to the C++ event processing engine. It provides a well-defined API (on_init, on_event, on_capture_end, etc.) and handles field extraction, filtering, and callback dispatch. This pattern is a textbook example of embedding a scripting language into a high-performance C++ application, enabling extensible analysis without recompilation.

A pure Lua utility module providing reusable functions for formatting bytes, time intervals, sorting tables, and printing formatted output. It is independent of any specific chisel logic and can be dropped into any Lua-based analysis tool. Demonstrates good modularization of common helper functions in a scripting environment.