As we discussed on the phone, the use of Capabilities/Activities in Eclipse might be a good way to handle the "Always On" aspect of the ModeShape menus in JBoss Tools. For some reason, this functionality is labeled as "Capabilities" in Eclipse Preferences, but the actual extension point is "org.eclipse.ui.activities" and called Activities in the API documentation. Go figure.

That said, it's very simple to implement. I'll attach a patch with the suggested tweaks to plugin.xml and plugin.properties. But this should address Max's issues with the ModeShape menus appearing on all folders and files and be easy to add to the documentation.