I have a rule that gets executed, this is the PR, this is where the inference happens in the Pants codebase.

@rule
async def infer_special_dependencies(request: InferSpecialDependenciesRequest) -> InferredDependencies:
    logger.warning(request)
    owners = await Get(Owners, OwnersRequest(("helloworld/translator/foobar.py",)))
    logger.warning(owners)
    return InferredDependencies(include=owners)

I have a POC working in Pants when I extend the

python-infer

subsystem adding a new option

"ignored_paths"

to not raise issues for those modules, but was wondering if it could be achieved with a plugin code instead. I have also found quite a few other ways to address this problem (letting Pants inferring a dependency with the help of another target), but again it would be neat to be able to hook into the inference process. Has anyone done anything vaguely similar?