diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5e7d3cc5..e01e319c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2730,6 +2730,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ratatui",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "shell-words",
  "syntect",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
diff --git a/yazi-fm/src/app/commands/plugin.rs b/yazi-fm/src/app/commands/plugin.rs
index 6331ae5f..5219f108 100644
--- a/yazi-fm/src/app/commands/plugin.rs
+++ b/yazi-fm/src/app/commands/plugin.rs
@@ -37,14 +37,13 @@ impl App {
 		Lives::scope(&self.cx, |_| {
 			let mut plugin: Option<Table> = None;
 			if let Some(b) = LOADED.read().get(&opt.name) {
-				match LUA.load(b).call(()) {
+				match LUA.load(b).call(args) {
 					Ok(t) => plugin = Some(t),
 					Err(e) => ret = Err(e),
 				}
 			}
 			if let Some(plugin) = plugin {
-				ret =
-					if let Some(cb) = opt.data.cb { cb(plugin) } else { plugin.call_method("entry", args) };
+				ret = if let Some(cb) = opt.data.cb { cb(plugin) } else { plugin.call_method("entry", ()) };
 			}
 		});
 
diff --git a/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml b/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml
index 0235eb41..35bce019 100644
--- a/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml
+++ b/yazi-plugin/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ parking_lot   = "^0"
 ratatui       = "^0"
 serde         = "^1"
 serde_json    = "^1"
+shell-words   = "^1"
 syntect       = { version = "^5", default-features = false, features = [ "parsing", "plist-load", "regex-onig" ] }
 tokio         = { version = "^1", features = [ "parking_lot", "rt-multi-thread" ] }
 tokio-util    = "^0"
diff --git a/yazi-plugin/src/opt.rs b/yazi-plugin/src/opt.rs
index 1daa6f1c..503e5074 100644
--- a/yazi-plugin/src/opt.rs
+++ b/yazi-plugin/src/opt.rs
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ impl TryFrom<Exec> for Opt {
 			bail!("invalid plugin name");
 		};
 
-		Ok(Self { name, sync: e.named.contains_key("sync"), data: e.take_data().unwrap_or_default() })
+		let mut data: OptData = e.take_data().unwrap_or_default();
+
+		if let Some(args) = e.named.get("args") {
+			data.args = shell_words::split(args)?
+				.into_iter()
+				.map(|s| ValueSendable::String(s.into_bytes()))
+				.collect();
+		}
+
+		Ok(Self { name, sync: e.named.contains_key("sync"), data })
 	}
 }