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Ok I finally figured out what's going on. The problem is in the package.xml, since the base class for my plugin lives in transmission_interface, the export line in the package.xml needs to read

<export>
    <transmission_interface plugin="${prefix}/plugins.xml" />
</export>

The pluginlib documentation does state this is the case. I just hadn't read that part.

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