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Plugins & Marketplaces

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A plugin bundles several customizations — skills, subagents, slash commands, hooks, and MCP servers — into a single, versioned, installable unit. A marketplace is a catalog of plugins people can discover and install.

Why plugins matter​

  • Ship a team toolkit in one step. Instead of asking everyone to copy five files, publish a plugin; teammates install it and get the same commands, hooks, agents, and MCP connections.
  • Versioning. Update the plugin, everyone pulls the new version.
  • Distribution. A marketplace makes your toolkit (or others') discoverable.

What's typically inside​

A plugin is a structured folder (a manifest plus the pieces it ships). At minimum it can carry just skills; at most, the full set above. Keep each plugin coherent — a "team conventions" plugin, a "Python toolkit" plugin — rather than a grab-bag.

Trust before you install​

:::warning Plugins can ship executable code Hooks and MCP servers in a plugin run with your privileges. Install from sources you trust and review what a plugin does first — see Reviewing Third-Party Code. :::

A path to scale your setup​

The natural progression: a CLAUDE.md → a few skills and commands → bundle them into a plugin → publish to a marketplace for your team or the community. That last step is part of how AILmanac wants to help the ecosystem grow.

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