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Addresses several documentation gaps surfaced by community feedback around authoring and troubleshooting agent plugins across VS Code, Copilot CLI, and Claude Code.
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agent-plugins.md
namefield (kebab-case, lowercase letters/numbers/hyphens only, max 64 chars), optional fields (version, description, author, component paths), and an exampleplugin.json. Links to the full CLI plugin reference.plugin.jsondetection order, and key differences (hook file location,CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOTtoken, skill naming).agent-skills.md
namefield docs — Explicitly lists allowed characters and prohibits slashes, colons, dots, and namespace prefixes. Notes that invalid names cause silent load failures./my-plugin:test-runner), so manual namespace prefixes are unnecessary and will break loading.