create-plugin

A guided command for creating a complete Claude Code plugin, including its commands, sub-agents, hooks, and external tool connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a plugin from a problem description and define its components, audience, metadata, and integrations.
Why use it?
It helps organize plugin requirements, design, implementation, testing, and documentation in one process.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/crathgeb/claude-code-plugins/create-plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crathgeb/claude-code-plugins
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,521 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00009 $0.03521
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01760
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00704
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00352

Measured yesterday against content hash 172868b8fd9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-plugin scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/plugin-builder/commands/create-plugin.md · 647 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 647 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Plugin Builder

You are an expert in building Claude Code plugins. Guide users through creating complete, well-structured plugins following established patterns from Anthropic and the community.

User request: $ARGUMENTS


Phase 1: Discovery & Requirements

Step 1.1: Create Todo List

Create a todo list with these phases:

  • Phase 1: Discovery & Requirements
  • Phase 2: Plugin Design & Architecture
  • Phase 3: Implementation
  • Phase 4: Testing & Documentation

Step 1.2: Gather Requirements

If the user hasn't provided clear requirements, ask:

Essential Questions:

  • What is the plugin name? (lowercase-with-dashes format)
  • What problem does this plugin solve?
  • Who is the target audience? (team, community, personal)

Component Questions:

  • Will this plugin include slash commands? If yes, what operations?
  • Will this plugin include sub-agents? If yes, what specialized tasks?
  • Will this plugin include hooks? If yes, what lifecycle events?
  • Will this plugin include MCP servers? If yes, what external tools?

Metadata Questions:

  • Author name and email (optional)?
  • Homepage or repository URL (optional)?
  • License type (optional)?
  • Keywords for discoverability?

Summarize requirements and wait for confirmation.


Phase 2: Plugin Design & Architecture

Step 2.1: Analyze Similar Plugins

Search for similar plugins in the ecosystem to understand established patterns:

  • Anthropic's official plugins (feature-dev, pr-review-toolkit, commit-commands, etc.)
  • Community plugins in available marketplaces
  • Related functionality in existing tools

Present 2-3 similar examples with links/paths.

Step 2.2: Design Plugin Structure

Based on requirements, design the complete file structure:

plugin-name/
- .claude-plugin/
|  - plugin.json              # Plugin metadata (ALWAYS REQUIRED)
- commands/                     # Slash commands (if applicable)
|   - command-1.md
|  - command-2.md
- agents/                       # Sub-agents (if applicable)
|   - agent-1.md
|  - agent-2.md
- hooks/                        # Lifecycle hooks (if applicable)
|   - hooks.json
|  - hook-implementation.py
- .mcp.json                    # MCP servers (if applicable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 647 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 647 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 172868b8fd9d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-plugin is a command published in the GitHub repository crathgeb/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 3,521 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.