ZI can use the NPM package registry to automatically:

• get the plugin's Git repository OR release-package URL,
• get the list of the recommended ices for the plugin,
  • there can be multiple lists of ices,
  • the ice lists are stored in profiles; there's at least one profile, default,
  • the ices can be selectively overriden.

Example ZI invocations that'll install z-shell/zsh-github-issues:

# Download the default profile. Need the `@' prefix because of the `git' ice.
zi pack for @github-issues-srv

The package is the puller-thread service for the z-shell/zsh-github-issues plugin. It runs the background service that downloads the new issues from GitHub.

The Zinit command executed will be equivalent to:

zi lucid service"GIT" \
 pick"zsh-github-issues.service.zsh" for \
    z-shell/zsh-github-issues