There is an ever-growing list of example OpenAssetIO hosts and manager plugins. They cover a large range, including reference implementations, testing utilities, proof of concepts, and production integrations.
In this repository you can find simple examples of host applications and manager plugins that make use of OpenAssetIO.
The simpleResolver is a Python
command-line tool that can take an entity reference and a list of
trait IDs, resolve them, and present the results as a dictionary
in the terminal.
The SimpleCppManager is a C++ OpenAssetIO manager plugin that provides functionality for a limited cross-section of the OpenAssetIO API. Its "database" of entities is taken directly from the settings provided by the host. It is designed to be used for testing C++ plugin support in host applications.
The Python manager plugin template provides a documentation-by-example implementation of a Python manager plugin.
An ever-expanding collection of Jupyter notebooks is available as examples in the MediaCreation repository. These demonstrate core OpenAssetIO concepts alongside the wider ecosystem, in particular as it relates to the VFX and media creation industry, through executable Python snippets. The pre-rendered notebooks can be viewed directly in GitHub, so downloading to execute locally is not required.
The Basic Asset Library (BAL) is a Python OpenAssetIO manager and plugin that is designed to enable host applications to test their integration against a wide spectrum of possible asset management system archetypes. It is designed to be fully puppetable, with responses controlled by a JSON configuration file. BAL is used extensively by the team for internal testing and demos of OpenAssetIO. Note that it is not intended as a reference implementation.
The USD Asset Resolver plugin allows OpenAssetIO plugins to be used within the USD ecosystem, by adapting the Ar2 API to the OpenAssetIO API.
The OTIO media linker plugin allows OpenAssetIO entity references to be recognised within OTIO documents, and resolved to their file path when the document is loaded.
Nuke is the industry-leading commercial compositing tool by Foundry. As of version 15.1, Nuke has built-in support for OpenAssetIO as a headline feature.
Ayon by Ynput is an open source asset management system that forms part of Ynput's pipeline-as-service offering. Their manager plugin is available on GitHub.
Blender is an open source 3D digital content creation tool.
The Blender relationships demo script adds UI elements to Blender that allow a user to load external geometry from an asset management system, and pick alternative proxy representations of that geometry by querying OpenAssetIO entity relationships.