plugin-marketplace-setup

plugin-marketplace-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Arenukvern/skill_steward. It costs 88 tokens per session (3,363 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of plugin-marketplace-setup, MIT.

A guide for designing marketplaces that distribute agent skills and plugins for tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Zed. A skill is instructions; a plugin can also connect runtime files, hooks, or tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up a marketplace, create install manifests, define host-specific installation steps, or decide whether a capability belongs in a skill or plugin.
Why use it?
It helps keep skills, plugins, and marketplaces separate and defines how they should be packaged and installed. It also clarifies public versus private distribution choices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the skill-steward plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up a marketplace, create install manifests, define host-specific installation steps, or decide whether a capability belongs in a skill or plugin.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arenukvern/skill_steward/plugin-marketplace-setup
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Arenukvern/skill_steward --skill plugin-marketplace-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arenukvern/skill_steward

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skill-steward, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,363 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00088 $0.03363
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01682
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00673
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00336

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1f4bf6d96c57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plugin-marketplace-setup 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 9d 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

This is a copy

86% identical to plugin-marketplace-setup — 38 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/plugin-marketplace-setup/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin & skill marketplace setup

Ship skills (portable instructions), plugins (runtime wiring), and marketplaces (catalogs) without mixing them up.

Three layers (normative)

Layer What it is Install unit Skill Steward home
Skill SKILL.md per agentskills.io npx skills add owner/repo --skill name skills/{name}/
Plugin Open Plugin or vendor manifest + hooks/MCP/rules/commands Per-agent (see matrix) plugins/{id}/ (ADR 0004)
Marketplace Catalog of plugins/skills Add marketplace, then install plugin Product repos; Skill Steward uses public Git + skills.sh

Rule: Instructions only → skill. Event hooks or multi-file wiring → plugin (references skills by id, do not fork SKILL.md).

Skill Steward meta-plugin means: a declarative manifest, referenced skill IDs, hook/rule snippets, and validated wiring artifacts. It does not mean a host marketplace submission has happened, and it must not silently mutate Cursor/Codex/Claude configuration. Host-specific install steps remain explicit in README/docs.

Public vs private (decision)

Goal Recommended channel Notes
Public discovery GitHub public repo + skills.sh npx skills add owner/repo; index needs valid skills/*/SKILL.md
Team-only skills (any agent) Private GitHub/GitLab repo Same npx skills add org/private-repo if agents can clone; use deploy keys / SSO
Cursor team plugins Team marketplace — Dashboard → Settings → Plugins → Import repo Teams/Enterprise; private GitHub repo with .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json
Claude Code team Private git marketplace /plugin marketplace add with token env for auto-update (Claude docs)
Codex team $REPO_ROOT/.agents/plugins/marketplace.json or ~/.agents/plugins/marketplace.json Repo/personal marketplace; install from app or CLI
Zed skills .agents/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/ Skills only; Zed has no remote skill registry or custom search paths
npm-private skills packages Claude marketplace source.type: npm For npm-hosted plugin bundles; uncommon for plain SKILL.md trees

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 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. 9d ago First seen · 240 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 1f4bf6d96c57

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plugin-marketplace-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository Arenukvern/skill_steward (11 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 3,363 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to plugin-marketplace-setup, differing in 38 lines, and is treated as a copy.