Claude Code Plugins: extension marketplace for coding agents
In one sentence Anthropic introduces Claude Plugins: bundles of skills + slash commands + MCP servers + hooks distributed as .plugin. Ships with community marketplaces and enterprise governance workflows.
Anthropic extends Claude Code with a plugin system: a plugin is a package combining skills, slash commands (the /review-style commands you give Claude), MCP servers, and hooks (events on the agent lifecycle).
The idea: a team can publish a "Acme DevOps team" plugin containing all their templates, custom skills, standard commands, and new members install it with one click. Same pattern for vendors: AWS publishes an "AWS Tools" plugin, Atlassian publishes "Jira/Confluence", etc.
A marketplace mechanism is also created: a community/company can host its own curated plugin marketplace. It's the VS Code Extensions equivalent for the coding-agent world.
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Anthropic
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Claude Code Plugins, Claude Plugin Marketplaces
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