Claude Code Plugins

Claude Code Plugins

A plugin is a folder that adds skills, agents, hooks, or MCP servers to Claude Code. A marketplace is a list of plugins that you can install. For example, claude plugin install my-plugin@my-marketplace installs a plugin from a marketplace.

Marks

Mark	Meaning
✅	A page of the Claude Code docs names it.
🔍	Only the Claude Code bundle names it. No docs page does.
⚠️	The docs and the bundle differ. The row says how.
🧪	It works only behind a flag, a plan, or a server-side switch. The row says which.
❌	It is removed or does nothing in 2.1.303.

Sub-Pages

Page	Content
Manifest	Each plugin.json key, userConfig, component layout
Marketplace	Each marketplace.json key, plugin and marketplace sources, settings keys
Loader	Paths, cache, variables, env vars, enabling
CLI	Each claude plugin subcommand, /plugin, flags

Overview

• A plugin is a folder with an optional .claude-plugin/plugin.json. Its parts are skills, commands, agents, hooks, MCP servers, LSP servers, monitors, output styles, workflows, themes, bin/, and mods.
• A marketplace lists plugins in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.
• A plugin id is name@marketplace. Special marketplaces: inline (session flags), builtin, skills-dir, synced.
• Enable state is in enabledPlugins. Scopes are user, project, local, and managed.
• Plugin skills are namespaced as /<plugin>:<skill>. See Skills and Commands.

See Also

• Create Plugins is the docs page for authors.
• Plugin Manifest Reference is the docs page for plugin.json.
• Skills And Commands covers the skills that plugins ship.
• Mod API covers mods.