diff --git a/angrmanagement/plugins/plugin_description.py b/angrmanagement/plugins/plugin_description.py
index 1b390a81c..08b54e8e7 100644
--- a/angrmanagement/plugins/plugin_description.py
+++ b/angrmanagement/plugins/plugin_description.py
@@ -1,101 +1,75 @@
-from typing import List
+import pathlib
+from dataclasses import field
+from typing import ClassVar, Dict, List, Optional, Type
 
+import marshmallow.validate
 import tomlkit
-from tomlkit.items import AoT, Integer, String, Table
+from marshmallow import Schema
+from marshmallow_dataclass import dataclass
 
 
+@dataclass
+class MetadataDescription:
+    Schema: ClassVar[Type[Schema]] = Schema  # placate mypy
+
+    version: int = field(metadata={"validate": marshmallow.validate.OneOf([0])})
+
+
+@dataclass
+class PackageDescription:
+    """
+    Describes a plugin package.
+    """
+
+    Schema: ClassVar[Type[Schema]] = Schema  # placate mypy
+
+    name: str = field()
+    version: str = field()
+    platforms: List[str] = field(default_factory=lambda: ["any"])
+    site_packages: Optional[str] = field(default=None)
+    authors: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    description: str = field(default="")
+    long_description: str = field(default="")
+
+
+@dataclass
 class PluginDescription:
     """
     Describes an angr management plugin. Can be generated from plugin.toml.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self):
-        # Metadata
-        self.plugin_metadata_version: int = None
-
-        # Plugin
-        self.name: str = ""
-        self.shortname: str = ""
-        self.version: str = ""
-        self.description: str = ""
-        self.long_description: str = ""
-        self.platforms: List[str] = []
-        self.min_angr_vesion: str = ""
-        self.author = ""
-        self.entrypoints: List[str] = []
-        self.require_workspace: bool = True
-        self.has_url_actions: bool = False
-
-        # file path
-        self.plugin_file_path: str = ""
-
-    @classmethod
-    def load_single_plugin(cls, data: Table) -> "PluginDescription":
-        desc = PluginDescription()
-
-        desc.name = data.get("name", None)
-        if not isinstance(desc.name, String):
-            raise TypeError(f'"name" must be a String instance, not a {type(desc.name)}')
-        if not desc.name:
-            raise TypeError('"name" cannot be empty')
-
-        desc.shortname = data.get("shortname", None)
-        if not isinstance(desc.shortname, String):
-            raise TypeError(f'"shortname" must be a String instance, not a {type(desc.shortname)}')
-        if not desc.shortname:
-            raise TypeError('"shortname" cannot be empty')
-
-        desc.entrypoints = data.get("entrypoints", "")
-        if not isinstance(desc.entrypoints, List) or not all(
-            isinstance(entrypoint, String) for entrypoint in desc.entrypoints
-        ):
-            raise TypeError('"entrypoints" must be a List of String instances')
-        if not desc.entrypoints:
-            raise TypeError('"entrypoints" cannot be empty')
-
-        # optional
-        desc.version = data.get("version", "")
-        desc.description = data.get("description", "")
-        desc.long_description = data.get("long_description", "")
-        desc.platforms = data.get("platforms", "")
-        desc.min_angr_vesion = data.get("min_angr_version", "")
-        desc.author = data.get("author", "")
-        desc.require_workspace = data.get("require_workspace", True)
-        desc.has_url_actions = data.get("has_url_actions", False)
-
-        return desc
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_toml(cls, file_path: str) -> List["PluginDescription"]:
-        with open(file_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
-            data = tomlkit.load(f)
-
-        # load metadata
-        outer_desc = PluginDescription()
-        if "meta" in data and "plugin_metadata_version" in data["meta"]:
-            if isinstance(data["meta"]["plugin_metadata_version"], Integer):
-                outer_desc.plugin_metadata_version = data["meta"]["plugin_metadata_version"].unwrap()
-
-        if outer_desc.plugin_metadata_version is None:
-            raise TypeError("Cannot find plugin_metadata_version")
-        if outer_desc.plugin_metadata_version != 0:
-            raise TypeError(f"Unsupported plugin metadata version {outer_desc.plugin_metadata_version}")
-
-        descs = []
-        # load plugin information
-        if "plugins" in data and isinstance(data["plugins"], AoT):
-            # multiple plugins to load!
-            for plugin in data["plugins"]:
-                desc = PluginDescription.load_single_plugin(plugin)
-                desc.plugin_metadata_version = outer_desc.plugin_metadata_version
-                desc.plugin_file_path = file_path
-                descs.append(desc)
-        elif "plugin" in data:
-            desc = PluginDescription.load_single_plugin(data["plugin"])
-            desc.plugin_metadata_version = outer_desc.plugin_metadata_version
-            desc.plugin_file_path = file_path
-            descs.append(desc)
-        else:
-            raise TypeError('Cannot find any "plugin" or "plugins" table.')
-
-        return descs
+    Schema: ClassVar[Type[Schema]] = Schema  # placate mypy
+
+    name: str = field()
+    entrypoint: str = field()
+    platforms: Optional[List[str]] = field(default=None)
+    description: str = field(default="")
+    requires_workspace: bool = field(default=False)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class PluginConfigFileDescription:
+    """
+    Describes a plugin config file.
+    """
+
+    Schema: ClassVar[Type[Schema]] = Schema  # placate mypy
+
+    metadata: MetadataDescription = field()
+    package: PackageDescription = field()
+    plugins: Dict[str, PluginDescription] = field(default_factory=dict)
+
+
+def from_toml_string(toml_string: str) -> PluginConfigFileDescription:
+    """
+    Load a plugin config file from a TOML string.
+    """
+    return PluginConfigFileDescription.Schema().load(tomlkit.parse(toml_string))
+
+
+def from_toml_file(toml_file: pathlib.Path) -> PluginConfigFileDescription:
+    """
+    Load a plugin config file from a TOML file.
+    """
+    with open(toml_file) as f:
+        return from_toml_string(f.read())
diff --git a/angrmanagement/py.typed b/angrmanagement/py.typed
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99d7bf605
--- /dev/null
+++ b/angrmanagement/py.typed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+PARTIAL
diff --git a/angrmanagement/ui/widgets/qdisasm_statusbar.py b/angrmanagement/ui/widgets/qdisasm_statusbar.py
index f9982a923..be07fe091 100644
--- a/angrmanagement/ui/widgets/qdisasm_statusbar.py
+++ b/angrmanagement/ui/widgets/qdisasm_statusbar.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from PySide6.QtWidgets import QComboBox, QFileDialog, QFrame, QHBoxLayout, QLabel, QPushButton
 
 from angrmanagement.ui.menus.disasm_options_menu import DisasmOptionsMenu
-from angrmanagement.ui.toolbars import NavToolbar
+from angrmanagement.ui.toolbars.nav_toolbar import NavToolbar
 
 from .qdisasm_base_control import DisassemblyLevel
 from .qdisasm_graph import QDisassemblyGraph
diff --git a/docs/TODO.md b/docs/TODO.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca964ee71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/TODO.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This directory should be adapted into a sphinx project to be hosted on readthedocs with other angr documentation.
diff --git a/docs/plugin_metadata_spec.md b/docs/plugin_metadata_spec.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6562717b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/plugin_metadata_spec.md
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Plugin Metadata Specification
+=============================
+
+Each plugin directory must have a plugin.toml file. A plugin metadata file has
+three sections: `meta`, `package` and `plugins`. Each plugin.toml must contain
+one meta section, but may contain Below are tables of keys for each sections.
+
+## Meta section
+| Key     | Type    | Required | Notes               |
+| ------- | ------- | -------- | ------------------- |
+| version | integer | yes      | Currently version 0 |
+
+
+## Package section
+| Key              | Type             | Required | Default | Notes     |
+| ---------------- | ---------------- | -------- | ------- | --------- |
+| name             | string           | yes      |         |           |
+| version          | string           | yes      |         |           |
+| platforms        | list[string]     | no       | ["any"] | See below |
+| site_packages    | Optional[string] | no       | None    |           |
+| authors          | list[string]     | no       | []      |           |
+| description      | string           | no       | ""      |           |
+| long-description | string           | no       | ""      |           |
+
+
+### Values for `platforms`
+angr management treats `"any"` as matching all platfoms. Otherwise, angr
+management checks if Python's `sys.platform` starts with any of the listed
+strings. See https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.platform to learn
+more about the `sys.platform` value in Python.
+
+
+## Plugins section
+| Key                | Type                   | Required | Default               | Notes                                      |
+| ------------------ | ---------------------- | -------- | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
+| name               | string                 | yes      |                       |                                            |
+| entrypoint         | string                 | yes      |                       | Use file.py::ClassName syntax, like pytest |
+| platforms          | Optional[list[string]] | no       | package.site-packages | overrides package default if configured    |
+| description        | string                 | no       | ""                    |                                            |
+| requires_workspace | bool                   | no       | false                 |                                            |
diff --git a/docs/plugin_spec.md b/docs/plugin_spec.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3d025a61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/plugin_spec.md
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Plugin specification
+
+angr management supports loading plugins that can extend and adapt the
+functionality of angr management itself. In order to create an angr management
+plugin, all that is needed is a directory containing two files: a `plugin.toml`
+and a Python file where that plugin is implemented. For example, this is valid
+plugin package directory layout:
+
+```
+example-plugin/
+    example_plugin.py
+    plugin.toml
+```
+
+Inside `example_plugin.py`, a super minimal plugin example looks like:
+
+```py
+import angrmanagement.plugins.BasePlugin
+
+class ExamplePlugin(BasePlugin):
+    pass
+```
+
+A valid `plugin.toml` that would allow this plugin to be loaded would look like
+this:
+
+```toml
+[metadata]
+version = 0
+
+[package]
+name = "example-plugin"
+version = "1.0"
+
+[plugin.example]
+name = "Example Plugin"
+version = "1.0"
+entrypoints = ["example_plugin.py::ExamplePlugin"]
+```
+
+For more information what fields are available in a plugin.toml, se the
+[plugin metadata specification](./plugin_metadata_spec.md).
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 254f68d85..783d502fd 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ install_requires =
     tomlkit
     pyobjc-framework-Cocoa;platform_system == "Darwin"
     thefuzz[speedup]
+    marshmallow~=3.19
+    marshmallow-dataclass~=8.5
 python_requires = >=3.8
 include_package_data = True
 
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ pyinstaller =
 
 [options.package_data]
 angrmanagement =
+    py.typed
     resources/fonts/*.ttf
     resources/images/*
     resources/themes/**/*
diff --git a/tests/test_plugin_desciption_loading.py b/tests/test_plugin_desciption_loading.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd5386ffd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_plugin_desciption_loading.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import unittest
+
+import tomlkit
+from marshmallow import ValidationError
+
+from angrmanagement.plugins.plugin_description import (
+    MetadataDescription,
+    PackageDescription,
+    PluginDescription,
+    from_toml_string,
+)
+
+
+class TestPluginDescriptionLoading(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_metadta_section(self):
+        test_data = "version = 0"
+        MetadataDescription.Schema().load(tomlkit.parse(test_data))
+
+    def test_metadata_section_invalid_version(self):
+        test_data = "version = 1_000_000"
+        with self.assertRaises(ValidationError):
+            MetadataDescription.Schema().load(tomlkit.parse(test_data))
+
+    def test_minimal_package(self):
+        test_data = """
+name = "example"
+version = "1.0"
+"""
+        PackageDescription.Schema().load(tomlkit.parse(test_data))
+
+    def test_minimal_plugin(self):
+        test_data = """
+name = "Example"
+entrypoint = "example.py::ExamplePlugin"
+"""
+        PluginDescription.Schema().load(tomlkit.parse(test_data))
+
+    def test_no_plugins(self):
+        test_data = """
+[metadata]
+version = 0
+
+[package]
+name = "example"
+version = "1.0"
+"""
+        from_toml_string(test_data)
+
+    def test_minimal(self):
+        test_data = """
+[metadata]
+version = 0
+
+[package]
+name = "example"
+version = "1.0"
+
+[plugin.example]
+name = "Example"
+entrypoint = "example.py::ExamplePlugin"
+"""
+        from_toml_string(test_data)
+
+    def test_multiple(self):
+        test_data = """
+[metadata]
+version = 0
+
+[package]
+name = "example"
+version = "1.0"
+platforms = ["any"]
+site_packages = "site-packages"
+authors = ["Example"]
+description = "An example plugin package"
+long_description = "An example plugin package for testing angr management"
+
+[plugins.example1]
+name = "Example 1"
+entrypoint = "example.py::ExamplePlugin1"
+platforms = ["linux"]
+description = "An example plugin for testing angr management on linuz"
+requires_workspace = false
+
+[plugins.example2]
+name = "Example 2"
+entrypoint = "example.py::ExamplePlugin2"
+platforms = ["win32", "cygwin"]
+description = "An example plugin for testing angr management on windows"
+requires_workspace = true
+"""
+        from_toml_string(test_data)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()