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anthropics · publisher31,611 repository starsApache-2.0 · Freegithub.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official
25skills
18ready to use

Fourteen of the 25 teach an agent to build a Claude Code plugin component: agent-development, command-development, hook-development, skill-development, and plugin-structure cover the five basic pieces, mcp-integration and build-mcp-server and build-mcp-app and build-mcpb cover wiring an MCP server into one, and skill-creator, plugin-settings, writing-hookify-rules, example-command, and example-skill round the set out. Two more, access and configure, aren't about building plugins at all — they manage channel access and setup for an iMessage bot and a Discord bot respectively. Two, cardputer-buddy and m5-onboard, walk through flashing and provisioning an M5Stack ESP32 handheld. The remaining seven — math-olympiad (adversarial verification of competition-math proofs), playground (a self-contained interactive HTML explorer generator), project-artifact (a shareable project-status page), session-report (an HTML report of a Claude Code session's token usage), claude-md-improver, claude-automation-recommender, and frontend-design — read like individual side projects rather than parts of one plan.

This directory is Anthropic's official marketplace — installed with /plugin install {name}@claude-plugins-official — combining plugins Anthropic's own team built, under /plugins, with third-party submissions under /external_plugins that went through a public submission form. Nineteen of the 25 need nothing beyond the plugin itself; five assume a local tool and one wants a stored account key. Someone building their own plugin for distribution gets real material from the 14-skill development cluster; someone hoping for a themed catalog of finished, ready-to-use tools instead finds messaging-bot config, a hardware-flashing guide, and a scatter of one-off demos in the same list.

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Anthropic's own README does not vouch for what's inside. Its opening warning reads "Make sure you trust a plugin before installing, updating, or using it," and states plainly that Anthropic does not control the MCP servers, files, or other software a plugin bundles and cannot verify that a plugin works as intended or stays unchanged — a caveat that covers this official directory's own external submissions, not just unrelated third-party repositories.

frontend-design is not unique to this repository. The same skill, close to word for word, also ships in anthropics/skills and anthropics/claude-code — installing it from here gets a reader the same generic visual-design guidance, nothing specific to building a plugin.

Checked 19 September 2026 from the full 25-skill catalog, with no sampling needed, and the repository README.

18Work with nothing else to set up.
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