diff --git a/.github/workflows/new-plugin.yml b/.github/workflows/new-plugin.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..39b1fbb869
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/new-plugin.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+name: new-plugin
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - "main"
+    paths:
+      - "plugins/**"
+
+# Prevent running this workflow concurrently
+concurrency:
+  group: "matrix-messages"
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    name: Collect metadata and setup job matrix
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 40
+    if: github.repository == 'nix-community/nixvim'
+    outputs:
+      json: ${{ steps.get_info.outputs.json }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install Nix
+        uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v26
+        with:
+          nix_path: nixpkgs=channel:nixos-unstable
+          github_access_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Get plugins info
+        id: get_info
+        run: |
+          # Run the `plugin-info` tool, printing the result to write to GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "json=$(
+            nix run .#plugin-info -- \
+              -c \
+              'github:${{ github.repository }}/${{ github.event.before }}'
+          )" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+  send:
+    name: Send matrix message
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: setup
+    if: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.json).removed == [] && fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.json).added != [] }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        added: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.json).added }}
+    env:
+      name: ${{ matrix.added.name }}
+      plain: ${{ matrix.added.plain }}
+      html: ${{ matrix.added.html }}
+      markdown: ${{ matrix.added.markdown }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Install matrix-msg tool
+        uses: lkiesow/matrix-notification@v1
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.CI_MATRIX_TOKEN }}
+          server: ${{ secrets.CI_MATRIX_SERVER }}
+          room: ${{ secrets.CI_MATRIX_ROOM }}
+          tool: true
+
+      - name: Send message and print summary
+        run: |
+          # stdout
+          echo "$plain"
+
+          # markdown summary
+          echo "$markdown" >> $GITHUG_STEP_SUMMARY
+          echo -e "\n---\n" >> $GITHUG_STEP_SUMMARY
+
+          # matrix message
+          if matrix-msg "$plain" "$html"
+          then
+            echo "Matrix message sent successfully" >> $GITHUG_STEP_SUMMARY
+          else
+            echo "Matrix message failed" >> $GITHUG_STEP_SUMMARY
+          fi
+
+  report:
+    name: Report removed plugins
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: setup
+    if: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.json).removed != [] }}
+    env:
+      json: ${{ needs.setup.outputs.json }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Comment on PR
+        if: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.json).pr }}
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          num: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.json).pr.number }}
+        run: |
+          body="
+          > [!WARNING]
+          > Not posting announcements to Matrix because plugins were removed in this PR.
+          > Please post announcements manually.
+
+          Added:
+          $(echo "$json" | jq -r '.added[] | "- \(.name)"')
+
+          Removed:
+          $(echo "$json" | jq -r '.removed[] | "- \(.)"')
+          "
+
+          # Markdown summary
+          echo "$body" >> $GITHUG_STEP_SUMMARY
+
+          # PR comment
+          gh pr comment "$num" \
+            --repo '${{ github.repository }}' \
+            --body "$body"
diff --git a/docs/mdbook/default.nix b/docs/mdbook/default.nix
index 93d3585f59..b2fa803069 100644
--- a/docs/mdbook/default.nix
+++ b/docs/mdbook/default.nix
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ let
           maintToMD = m: if m ? github then "[${m.name}](https://github.com/${m.github})" else m.name;
         in
         # Make sure this path has a valid info attrset
-        if info ? file && info ? description && info ? url then
+        if info._type or null == "nixvimInfo" then
           "# ${lib.last path}\n\n"
-          + (lib.optionalString (info.url != null) "**URL:** [${info.url}](${info.url})\n\n")
+          + (lib.optionalString (info.url or null != null) "**URL:** [${info.url}](${info.url})\n\n")
           + (lib.optionalString (
             maintainers != [ ]
           ) "**Maintainers:** ${lib.concatStringsSep ", " maintainersNames}\n\n")
-          + lib.optionalString (info.description != null) ''
+          + lib.optionalString (info.description or null != null) ''
 
             ---
 
diff --git a/flake-modules/dev/ci-new-plugin-matrix.nix b/flake-modules/dev/ci-new-plugin-matrix.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca540de5b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake-modules/dev/ci-new-plugin-matrix.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+  perSystem =
+    { pkgs, ... }:
+    {
+      apps.ci-new-plugin-matrix.program = pkgs.writers.writePython3Bin "test_python3" {
+        libraries = with pkgs.python3Packages; [
+          requests
+        ];
+        flakeIgnore = [
+          "E501" # Line length
+          "W503" # Line break before binary operator
+        ];
+      } (builtins.readFile ./ci-new-plugin-matrix.py);
+    };
+}
diff --git a/flake-modules/dev/ci-new-plugin-matrix.py b/flake-modules/dev/ci-new-plugin-matrix.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..07ac61b3ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake-modules/dev/ci-new-plugin-matrix.py
@@ -0,0 +1,354 @@
+import argparse
+import enum
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+from sys import stderr
+
+import requests
+
+
+class Format(enum.Enum):
+    PLAIN = "plain"
+    HTML = "html"
+    MARKDOWN = "markdown"
+
+
+icons = {
+    "plugin": "💾",
+    "colorscheme": "🎨",
+}
+
+
+def main(args) -> None:
+    plugins = {"old": get_plugins(args.old), "new": get_plugins(".")}
+
+    # TODO: also guess at "renamed" plugins heuristically
+    plugin_diff = {
+        "added": {
+            ns: plugins["new"][ns] - plugins["old"][ns]
+            for ns in ["plugins", "colorschemes"]
+        },
+        "removed": {
+            ns: plugins["old"][ns] - plugins["new"][ns]
+            for ns in ["plugins", "colorschemes"]
+        },
+    }
+
+    # Flatten the above dict into a list of entries;
+    # each with 'name' and 'namespace' keys
+    plugin_entries = {
+        action: [
+            {"name": name, "namespace": namespace}
+            for namespace, plugins in namespaces.items()
+            for name in plugins
+        ]
+        for action, namespaces in plugin_diff.items()
+    }
+
+    # Only lookup PR if something was added or removed
+    if plugin_entries["added"] or plugin_entries["removed"]:
+        if pr := get_pr(
+            sha=args.head,
+            # TODO: should this be configurable?
+            repo="nix-community/nixvim",
+            token=args.token,
+        ):
+            plugin_entries["pr"] = {
+                "number": pr["number"],
+                "url": pr["html_url"],
+                "author_name": pr["user"]["login"],
+                "author_url": pr["user"]["html_url"],
+            }
+
+    # Expand the added plugins with additional metadata from the flake
+    if "added" in plugin_entries:
+        print("About to add meta to added plugins")
+        plugin_entries["added"] = get_plugin_meta(plugin_entries["added"])
+        apply_fallback_descriptions(plugin_entries["added"], token=args.token)
+
+    # Unless `--raw`, we should produce formatted text for added plugins
+    if not args.raw and "added" in plugin_entries:
+        pr = plugin_entries.get("pr") or None
+        plugin_entries.update(
+            added=[
+                {
+                    "name": plugin["name"],
+                    "plain": render_added_plugin(plugin, pr, Format.PLAIN),
+                    "html": render_added_plugin(plugin, pr, Format.HTML),
+                    "markdown": render_added_plugin(plugin, pr, Format.MARKDOWN),
+                }
+                for plugin in plugin_entries["added"]
+            ]
+        )
+
+    # Print json for use in CI matrix
+    print(
+        json.dumps(
+            plugin_entries,
+            separators=((",", ":") if args.compact else None),
+            indent=(None if args.compact else 4),
+            sort_keys=(not args.compact),
+        )
+    )
+
+
+# Gets a list of plugins that exist in the flake.
+# Grouped as "plugins" and "colorschemes"
+def get_plugins(flake: str) -> list[str]:
+    expr = (
+        "options: "
+        "with builtins; "
+        "listToAttrs ("
+        "  map"
+        "    (name: { inherit name; value = attrNames options.${name}; })"
+        '    [ "plugins" "colorschemes" ]'
+        ")"
+    )
+    cmd = [
+        "nix",
+        "eval",
+        f"{flake}#nixvimConfiguration.options",
+        "--apply",
+        expr,
+        "--json",
+    ]
+    out = subprocess.check_output(cmd)
+    # Parse as json, converting the lists to sets
+    return {k: set(v) for k, v in json.loads(out).items()}
+
+
+# Map a list of plugin entries, populating them with additional metadata
+def get_plugin_meta(plugins: list[dict]) -> list[dict]:
+    expr = (
+        "cfg: "
+        "with builtins; "
+        "let "
+        # Assume the json won't include any double-single-quotes:
+        f" plugins = fromJSON ''{json.dumps(plugins, separators=(",", ":"))}'';"
+        "in "
+        "map ({name, namespace}: let "
+        "  nixvimInfo = cfg.config.meta.nixvimInfo.${namespace}.${name};"
+        "  package = cfg.options.${namespace}.${name}.package.default; "
+        "in {"
+        "  inherit name namespace;"
+        "  url = nixvimInfo.url or package.meta.homepage or null;"
+        "  display_name = nixvimInfo.originalName or name;"
+        '  description = package.meta.description or null;'
+        "}) plugins"
+    )
+    cmd = [
+        "nix",
+        "eval",
+        ".#nixvimConfiguration",
+        "--apply",
+        expr,
+        "--json",
+    ]
+    out = subprocess.check_output(cmd)
+    return json.loads(out)
+
+
+# Walks the plugin list, fetching descriptions from github if missing
+def apply_fallback_descriptions(plugins: list[dict], token: str):
+    gh_rxp = re.compile(
+        r"^https?://github.com/(?P<owner>[^/]+)/(?P<repo>[^/]+)(?:[/#?].*)?$"
+    )
+    for plugin in plugins:
+        if plugin.get("description"):
+            continue
+        if m := gh_rxp.match(plugin["url"]):
+            plugin["description"] = (
+                get_github_description(
+                    owner=m.group("owner"), repo=m.group("repo"), token=token
+                )
+                or None
+            )
+            continue
+        plugin["description"] = None
+
+
+# TODO: extract the HTTP request logic into a shared function
+def get_github_description(owner: str, repo: str, token: str) -> str:
+    headers = {
+        "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json",
+        "X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
+    }
+    if token:
+        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {token}"
+
+    res = requests.get(
+        url=f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}", headers=headers
+    )
+
+    if res.status_code != 200:
+        try:
+            message = res.json()["message"]
+        except requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError:
+            message = res.text
+        # FIXME: Maybe we should panic and fail CI?
+        print(f"{message} (HTTP {res.status_code})", file=stderr)
+        return None
+
+    if data := res.json():
+        return data["description"]
+    return None
+
+
+def get_head_sha() -> str:
+    return subprocess.check_output(["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"]).decode("ascii").strip()
+
+
+# TODO: extract the HTTP request logic into a shared function
+def get_pr(sha: str, repo: str, token: str = None) -> dict:
+    headers = {
+        "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json",
+        "X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
+    }
+    if token:
+        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {token}"
+
+    res = requests.get(
+        url=f"https://api.github.com/repos/{repo}/commits/{sha}/pulls", headers=headers
+    )
+
+    if res.status_code != 200:
+        try:
+            message = res.json()["message"]
+        except requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError:
+            message = res.text
+        # FIXME: Maybe we should panic and fail CI?
+        print(f"{message} (HTTP {res.status_code})", file=stderr)
+        return None
+
+    # If no matching PR exists, an empty list is returned
+    if data := res.json():
+        return data[0]
+    return None
+
+
+def render_added_plugin(plugin: dict, pr: dict, format: Format) -> str:
+    name = plugin["name"]
+    display_name = plugin["display_name"]
+    namespace = plugin["namespace"]
+    kind = namespace[:-1]
+    plugin_url = plugin["url"]
+    docs_url = f"https://nix-community.github.io/nixvim/{namespace}/{name}/index.html"
+
+    match format:
+        case Format.PLAIN:
+            return (
+                f"[{icons[kind]} NEW {kind.upper()}]\n\n"
+                f"{display_name} support has been added!\n\n"
+                + (
+                    f"Description: {desc}\n"
+                    if (desc := plugin.get("description"))
+                    else ""
+                )
+                + f"URL: {plugin_url}"
+                f"Docs: {docs_url}\n"
+                + (
+                    f"PR #{pr['number']} by {pr['author_name']}: {pr['url']}\n"
+                    if pr
+                    else "No PR\n"
+                )
+            )
+        case Format.HTML:
+            # TODO: render from the markdown below?
+            return (
+                f"<p>&#91;{icons[kind]} NEW {kind.upper()}&#93;</p>\n"
+                f'<p><a href="{plugin_url}">{display_name}</a> support has been added!</p>\n'
+                "<p>\n"
+                + (
+                    f"Description: {desc}<br>\n"
+                    if (desc := plugin.get("description"))
+                    else ""
+                )
+                + f'<a href="{docs_url}>Documentation</a>\n'
+                + (
+                    f'<br><a href="{pr['url']}>PR &#35;{pr['number']}</a> by <a href="{pr['author_url']}">{pr['author_name']}</a>\n'
+                    if pr
+                    else "<br>No PR\n"
+                )
+                + "</p>\n"
+            )
+        case Format.MARKDOWN:
+            return (
+                f"\\[{icons[kind]} NEW {kind.upper()}\\]\n\n"
+                f"[{display_name}]({plugin_url}) support has been added!\n\n"
+                + (
+                    f"Description: {desc}\n"
+                    if (desc := plugin.get("description"))
+                    else ""
+                )
+                + f"[Documentation]({docs_url})\n"
+                + (
+                    f'[PR \\#{pr['number']}]({pr['url']}) by [{pr['author_name']}]({pr['author_url']})\n'
+                    if pr
+                    else "No PR\n"
+                )
+            )
+
+
+# Describes an argparse type that should represent a flakeref,
+# or a partial flakeref that we can normalise using some defaults.
+def flakeref(arg):
+    default_protocol = "github:"
+    default_repo = "nix-community/nixvim"
+    sha_rxp = re.compile(r"^[A-Fa-f0-9]{6,40}$")
+    repo_rxp = re.compile(
+        r"^(?P<protocol>[^:/]+:)?(?P<repo>(:?[^/]+)/(:?[^/]+))(?P<sha>/[A-Fa-f0-9]{6,40})?$"
+    )
+    if sha_rxp.match(arg):
+        return f"{default_protocol}{default_repo}/{arg}"
+    elif m := repo_rxp.match(arg):
+        protocol = m.group("protocol") or default_protocol
+        repo = m.group("repo")
+        sha = m.group("sha") or ""
+        return protocol + repo + sha
+    else:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"Not a valid flakeref: {arg}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="ci-new-plugin-matrix",
+        description="Generate a JSON matrix for use in CI, describing newly added plugins.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "old",
+        metavar="flakeref",
+        help="the (old) flake ref to compare against",
+        type=flakeref,
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--head",
+        help="(optional) the current git commit, will default to using `git rev-parse HEAD`",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--github-token",
+        dest="token",
+        help="(optional) github token, the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable is used as a fallback",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--compact",
+        "-c",
+        help="produce compact json instead of prettifying",
+        action="store_true",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--raw",
+        "-r",
+        help="produce raw data instead of message strings",
+        action="store_true",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    # Handle defaults lazily
+    if not args.token:
+        args.token = os.getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
+    if not args.head:
+        args.head = get_head_sha()
+
+    main(args)
diff --git a/flake-modules/dev/default.nix b/flake-modules/dev/default.nix
index 2f76438a1c..32821276d8 100644
--- a/flake-modules/dev/default.nix
+++ b/flake-modules/dev/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 { lib, inputs, ... }:
 {
   imports =
-    [ ./devshell.nix ]
+    [
+      ./ci-new-plugin-matrix.nix
+      ./devshell.nix
+    ]
     ++ lib.optional (inputs.git-hooks ? flakeModule) inputs.git-hooks.flakeModule
     ++ lib.optional (inputs.treefmt-nix ? flakeModule) inputs.treefmt-nix.flakeModule;
 
diff --git a/lib/neovim-plugin.nix b/lib/neovim-plugin.nix
index fce2c0a7fe..85133f15b2 100644
--- a/lib/neovim-plugin.nix
+++ b/lib/neovim-plugin.nix
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
           meta = {
             inherit maintainers;
             nixvimInfo = {
-              inherit description;
+              inherit description originalName;
               url = args.url or opt.package.default.meta.homepage;
               path = [
                 namespace
diff --git a/lib/vim-plugin.nix b/lib/vim-plugin.nix
index c7c9406d69..335a5090d4 100644
--- a/lib/vim-plugin.nix
+++ b/lib/vim-plugin.nix
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
           meta = {
             inherit maintainers;
             nixvimInfo = {
-              inherit description;
+              inherit description originalName;
               url = args.url or opt.package.default.meta.homepage;
               path = [
                 namespace
diff --git a/modules/misc/nixvim-info.nix b/modules/misc/nixvim-info.nix
index 219f9202ac..e135a96540 100644
--- a/modules/misc/nixvim-info.nix
+++ b/modules/misc/nixvim-info.nix
@@ -25,11 +25,13 @@
           (
             acc: def:
             lib.recursiveUpdate acc (
-              lib.setAttrByPath def.value.path {
-                inherit (def) file;
-                url = def.value.url or null;
-                description = def.value.description or null;
-              }
+              lib.setAttrByPath def.value.path (
+                {
+                  inherit (def) file;
+                  _type = "nixvimInfo";
+                }
+                // builtins.removeAttrs def.value [ "path" ]
+              )
             )
           )
           {