diff --git a/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/BasePlugin.java b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/BasePlugin.java
index fff8e758b..b0476792a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/BasePlugin.java
+++ b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/BasePlugin.java
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import org.pf4j.PluginWrapper;
  * @since 2.0.0
  */
 @Slf4j
-public abstract class BasePlugin extends Plugin {
+public class BasePlugin extends Plugin {
 
     private PluginApplicationContext applicationContext;
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/Plugin.java b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/Plugin.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..177cdd07d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/Plugin.java
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package run.halo.app.plugin;
+
+import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.media.Schema;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import lombok.Data;
+import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
+import lombok.ToString;
+import run.halo.app.extension.AbstractExtension;
+
+/**
+ * A custom resource for Plugin.
+ *
+ * @author guqing
+ * @since 2.0.0
+ */
+@Data
+@ToString(callSuper = true)
+@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
+public class Plugin extends AbstractExtension {
+
+    @Schema(required = true)
+    private PluginSpec spec;
+
+    @Data
+    public static class PluginSpec {
+
+        private String displayName;
+
+        private String version;
+
+        private String author;
+
+        private String logo;
+
+        private Map<String, String> pluginDependencies = new HashMap<>(4);
+
+        private String homepage;
+
+        private String description;
+
+        private String license;
+
+        /**
+         * SemVer format.
+         */
+        private String requires = "*";
+
+        private String pluginClass = BasePlugin.class.getName();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginDescriptorFinder.java b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginDescriptorFinder.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..19affd9d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginDescriptorFinder.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package run.halo.app.plugin;
+
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
+import org.pf4j.DefaultPluginDescriptor;
+import org.pf4j.PluginDependency;
+import org.pf4j.PluginDescriptor;
+import org.pf4j.PluginDescriptorFinder;
+import org.pf4j.util.FileUtils;
+
+/**
+ * Find a plugin descriptor for a plugin path.
+ *
+ * @author guqing
+ * @see DefaultPluginDescriptor
+ * @since 2.0.0
+ */
+@Slf4j
+public class YamlPluginDescriptorFinder implements PluginDescriptorFinder {
+
+    private final YamlPluginFinder yamlPluginFinder;
+
+    public YamlPluginDescriptorFinder() {
+        yamlPluginFinder = new YamlPluginFinder();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isApplicable(Path pluginPath) {
+        return Files.exists(pluginPath)
+            && (Files.isDirectory(pluginPath)
+            || FileUtils.isJarFile(pluginPath));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public PluginDescriptor find(Path pluginPath) {
+        Plugin plugin = yamlPluginFinder.find(pluginPath);
+        return convert(plugin);
+    }
+
+    private DefaultPluginDescriptor convert(Plugin plugin) {
+        String pluginId = plugin.getMetadata().getName();
+        Plugin.PluginSpec spec = plugin.getSpec();
+        DefaultPluginDescriptor defaultPluginDescriptor =
+            new DefaultPluginDescriptor(pluginId,
+                spec.getDescription(),
+                spec.getPluginClass(),
+                spec.getVersion(),
+                spec.getRequires(),
+                spec.getAuthor(),
+                spec.getLicense());
+        // add dependencies
+        spec.getPluginDependencies().forEach((pluginDepName, versionRequire) -> {
+            PluginDependency dependency =
+                new PluginDependency(String.format("%s@%s", pluginDepName, versionRequire));
+            defaultPluginDescriptor.addDependency(dependency);
+        });
+        return defaultPluginDescriptor;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginFinder.java b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginFinder.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..507d4b677
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginFinder.java
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+package run.halo.app.plugin;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.List;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
+import org.pf4j.PluginRuntimeException;
+import org.pf4j.util.FileUtils;
+import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;
+import run.halo.app.extension.Unstructured;
+import run.halo.app.infra.utils.YamlUnstructuredLoader;
+
+/**
+ * <p>Reading plugin descriptor data from plugin.yaml.</p>
+ * Example:
+ * <pre>
+ * apiVersion: v1alpha1
+ * kind: Plugin
+ * metadata:
+ *   name: plugin-1
+ *   labels:
+ *     extensions.guqing.xyz/category: attachment
+ * spec:
+ *   # 'version' is a valid semantic version string (see semver.org).
+ *   version: 0.0.1
+ *   requires: ">=2.0.0"
+ *   author: guqing
+ *   logo: example.com/logo.png
+ *   pluginClass: xyz.guqing.plugin.potatoes.PotatoesApp
+ *   pluginDependencies:
+ *    "plugin-2": 1.0.0
+ *   # 'homepage' usually links to the GitHub repository of the plugin
+ *   homepage: example.com
+ *   # 'displayName' explains what the plugin does in only a few words
+ *   displayName: "a name to show"
+ *   description: "Tell me more about this plugin."
+ *   license: MIT
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * @author guqing
+ * @since 2.0.0
+ */
+@Slf4j
+public class YamlPluginFinder {
+    public static final String DEFAULT_PROPERTIES_FILE_NAME = "plugin.yaml";
+
+    private final String propertiesFileName;
+
+    public YamlPluginFinder() {
+        this(DEFAULT_PROPERTIES_FILE_NAME);
+    }
+
+    public YamlPluginFinder(String propertiesFileName) {
+        this.propertiesFileName = propertiesFileName;
+    }
+
+    public Plugin find(Path pluginPath) {
+        return readPluginDescriptor(pluginPath);
+    }
+
+    protected Plugin readPluginDescriptor(Path pluginPath) {
+        Path propertiesPath = getManifestPath(pluginPath, propertiesFileName);
+        if (propertiesPath == null) {
+            throw new PluginRuntimeException("Cannot find the plugin manifest path");
+        }
+
+        log.debug("Lookup plugin descriptor in '{}'", propertiesPath);
+        if (Files.notExists(propertiesPath)) {
+            throw new PluginRuntimeException("Cannot find '{}' path", propertiesPath);
+        }
+        YamlUnstructuredLoader yamlUnstructuredLoader =
+            new YamlUnstructuredLoader(new FileSystemResource(propertiesPath));
+        List<Unstructured> unstructuredList = yamlUnstructuredLoader.load();
+        if (unstructuredList.size() != 1) {
+            throw new PluginRuntimeException("Unable to find plugin descriptor file '{}'",
+                propertiesFileName);
+        }
+        Unstructured unstructured = unstructuredList.get(0);
+        return Unstructured.OBJECT_MAPPER.convertValue(unstructured,
+            Plugin.class);
+    }
+
+    protected Path getManifestPath(Path pluginPath, String propertiesFileName) {
+        if (Files.isDirectory(pluginPath)) {
+            return pluginPath.resolve(Paths.get(propertiesFileName));
+        } else {
+            // it's a jar file
+            try {
+                return FileUtils.getPath(pluginPath, propertiesFileName);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                throw new PluginRuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginDescriptorFinderTest.java b/src/test/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginDescriptorFinderTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1704a1f72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginDescriptorFinderTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+package run.halo.app.plugin;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.AssertionsForInterfaceTypes.assertThat;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import org.json.JSONException;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.pf4j.PluginDescriptor;
+import org.skyscreamer.jsonassert.JSONAssert;
+import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;
+import run.halo.app.infra.utils.JsonUtils;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for {@link YamlPluginDescriptorFinder}.
+ *
+ * @author guqing
+ * @since 2.0.0
+ */
+class YamlPluginDescriptorFinderTest {
+
+    private YamlPluginDescriptorFinder yamlPluginDescriptorFinder;
+    private Path testPath;
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    void setUp() throws FileNotFoundException {
+        yamlPluginDescriptorFinder = new YamlPluginDescriptorFinder();
+        File file = ResourceUtils.getFile("classpath:plugin/plugin.yaml");
+        testPath = file.toPath().getParent();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void isApplicable() throws IOException {
+        // File not exists
+        boolean applicable =
+            yamlPluginDescriptorFinder.isApplicable(Path.of("/some/path/test.jar"));
+        assertThat(applicable).isFalse();
+
+        // jar file is applicable
+        Path tempJarFile = Files.createTempFile("test", ".jar");
+        applicable =
+            yamlPluginDescriptorFinder.isApplicable(tempJarFile);
+        assertThat(applicable).isTrue();
+
+        // zip file is not applicable
+        Path tempZipFile = Files.createTempFile("test", ".zip");
+        applicable =
+            yamlPluginDescriptorFinder.isApplicable(tempZipFile);
+        assertThat(applicable).isFalse();
+
+        // directory is applicable
+        applicable =
+            yamlPluginDescriptorFinder.isApplicable(tempJarFile.getParent());
+        assertThat(applicable).isTrue();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void find() throws JsonProcessingException, JSONException {
+        PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor = yamlPluginDescriptorFinder.find(testPath);
+        String actual = JsonUtils.objectToJson(pluginDescriptor);
+        JSONAssert.assertEquals("""
+                {
+                    "pluginId": "plugin-1",
+                    "pluginDescription": "Tell me more about this plugin.",
+                    "pluginClass": "run.halo.app.plugin.BasePlugin",
+                    "version": "0.0.1",
+                    "requires": ">=2.0.0",
+                    "provider": "guqing",
+                    "dependencies": [
+                        {
+                            "pluginId": "banana",
+                            "pluginVersionSupport": "0.0.1",
+                            "optional": false
+                        }
+                    ],
+                    "license": "MIT"
+                }
+                """,
+            actual,
+            false);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/test/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginFinderTest.java b/src/test/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginFinderTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e04140265
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/run/halo/app/plugin/YamlPluginFinderTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+package run.halo.app.plugin;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import org.json.JSONException;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.pf4j.PluginRuntimeException;
+import org.skyscreamer.jsonassert.JSONAssert;
+import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;
+import run.halo.app.infra.utils.JsonUtils;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for {@link YamlPluginDescriptorFinder}.
+ *
+ * @author guqing
+ * @since 2.0.0
+ */
+class YamlPluginFinderTest {
+    private YamlPluginFinder pluginFinder;
+    private Path testPath;
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    void setUp() throws FileNotFoundException {
+        pluginFinder = new YamlPluginFinder();
+        File file = ResourceUtils.getFile("classpath:plugin/plugin.yaml");
+        testPath = file.toPath().getParent();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void findTest() throws JsonProcessingException, JSONException {
+        Plugin plugin = pluginFinder.find(testPath);
+        assertThat(plugin).isNotNull();
+        JSONAssert.assertEquals("""
+            {
+                "spec": {
+                    "displayName": "a name to show",
+                    "version": "0.0.1",
+                    "author": "guqing",
+                    "logo": "https://guqing.xyz/avatar",
+                    "pluginDependencies": {
+                      "banana": "0.0.1"
+                    },
+                    "homepage": "https://github.com/guqing/halo-plugin-1",
+                    "description": "Tell me more about this plugin.",
+                    "license": "MIT",
+                    "requires": ">=2.0.0",
+                    "pluginClass": "run.halo.app.plugin.BasePlugin"
+                },
+                "apiVersion": "v1",
+                "kind": "Plugin",
+                "metadata": {
+                    "name": "plugin-1",
+                    "labels": null,
+                    "annotations": null,
+                    "version": null,
+                    "creationTimestamp": null,
+                    "deletionTimestamp": null
+                }
+            }
+            """,
+            JsonUtils.objectToJson(plugin),
+            false);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void findFailedWhenFileNotFound() {
+        Path test = Paths.get("/tmp");
+        assertThatThrownBy(() -> {
+            pluginFinder.find(test);
+        }).isInstanceOf(PluginRuntimeException.class)
+            .hasMessage("Cannot find '/tmp/plugin.yaml' path");
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/test/resources/plugin/plugin.yaml b/src/test/resources/plugin/plugin.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b29f43aab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/plugin/plugin.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Plugin
+metadata:
+  name: plugin-1
+spec:
+  # 'version' is a valid semantic version string (see semver.org).
+  version: 0.0.1
+  requires: ">=2.0.0"
+  author: guqing
+  logo: https://guqing.xyz/avatar
+  pluginDependencies:
+    "banana": "0.0.1"
+  homepage: https://github.com/guqing/halo-plugin-1
+  displayName: "a name to show"
+  description: "Tell me more about this plugin."
+  license: MIT
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