Specification · Package format · Plugin packaging
Claude Code Plugins
Claude Code's documented plugin package and marketplace convention for installing skills, agents, hooks, and servers as one bundle.
- Status
- Vendor-specific
- Version
- Rolling / unversioned
- Steward
- Anthropic
- Licenses
- Unclear or unresolved terms · Proprietary
- Standardizes
- The optional .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest and its component path fields, default locations for skills, commands, agents, hooks, MCP servers, LSP servers, and experimental themes and monitors, CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT and CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA path expansion, installation scopes, and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json catalog entries and plugin sources.
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