cowork-plugin-customizer

cowork-plugin-customizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,123 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for tailoring a Claude Code plugin to an organization's tools and working methods. It can set up a generic plugin template or adjust an already configured one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up, configuring, or refining a plugin's skills, connectors, or other organization-specific settings in the desktop app's Cowork mode.
Why use it?
It helps replace template placeholders and configuration choices with the organization's actual tools, connectors, and preferences.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cowork-plugin-management plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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 skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/cowork-plugin-customizer
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill cowork-plugin-customizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cowork-plugin-management, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,123 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 $0.00054 $0.02123
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01061
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00212

Measured 4d ago against content hash d7a9455692f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cowork-plugin-customizer 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 4d ago.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cowork-plugin-management/skills/cowork-plugin-customizer/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cowork Plugin Customization

Customize a plugin for a specific organization — either by setting up a generic plugin template for the first time, or by tweaking and refining an already-configured plugin.

Finding the plugin: To find the plugin's source files, run find mnt/.local-plugins mnt/.plugins -type d -name "*<plugin-name>*" to locate the plugin directory, then read its files to understand its structure before making changes. If you cannot find the plugin directory, the user is likely running this conversation in a remote container. Abort and let them know: "Customizing plugins is currently only available in the desktop app's Cowork mode."

Determining the Customization Mode

After locating the plugin, check for ~~-prefixed placeholders: grep -rn '~~\w' /path/to/plugin --include='*.md' --include='*.json'

Default rule: If ~~ placeholders exist, default to Generic plugin setup unless the user explicitly asks to customize a specific part of the plugin.

1. Generic plugin setup — The plugin contains ~~-prefixed placeholders. These are customization points in a template that need to be replaced with real values (e.g., ~~JiraAsana, ~~your-team-channel#engineering).

2. Scoped customization — No ~~ placeholders exist, and the user asked to customize a specific part of the plugin (e.g., "customize the connectors", "update the standup skill", "change the ticket tool"). Read the plugin files to find the relevant section(s) and focus only on those. Do not scan the entire plugin or present unrelated customization items.

Legacy commands/ directories: Some plugins include a commands/ directory. The Cowork UI now presents these alongside skills as a single "Skills" concept, so treat commands/*.md files the same way you would skills/*/SKILL.md files when customizing.

3. General customization — No ~~ placeholders exist, and the user wants to modify the plugin broadly. Read the plugin's files to understand its current configuration, then ask the user what they'd like to change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 150 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A d7a9455692f2

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cowork-plugin-customizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,849 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,123 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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