Plugins on AI Knowledge Base

Create and distribute a plugin marketplace

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Build and host plugin marketplaces to distribute Claude Code extensions across teams and communities.

Create plugins

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Create custom plugins to extend Claude Code with skills, agents, hooks, and MCP servers.

Discover and install prebuilt plugins through marketplaces

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Find and install plugins from marketplaces to extend Claude Code with new commands, agents, and capabilities.

Extend Claude Code

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Understand when to use CLAUDE.md, Skills, subagents, hooks, MCP, and plugins.

Plugins

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Plugins extend the Agent SDK’s core behavior by hooking into the agent lifecycle at well-defined extension points, enabling cross-cutting concerns like logging, rate limiting, and custom authentication without modifying agent logic directly. Focus on the plugin interface and the ordering guarantees for plugin execution — multiple plugins can compose, but execution order matters for plugins that modify requests or responses. A common mistake is putting business logic inside plugins rather than skills, which makes agents harder to test and reason about. Read this after understanding skills to appreciate the boundary between agent capabilities and infrastructure concerns.

Plugins reference

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Complete technical reference for Claude Code plugin system, including schemas, CLI commands, and component specifications.