plugins-management

A guide for creating, checking, publishing, submitting, installing, and removing add-ons for Claude Code and OpenCode. It covers the file structures and commands those coding agents expect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a plugin, create a marketplace, validate its files, prepare a submission, publish it through supported channels, or manage installed plugins.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork about add-on layout, validation, and distribution with a defined workflow. Removal actions require confirmation before anything is deleted or uninstalled.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/codealive-ai/ai-driven-development/plugins-management
Any agent
npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill plugins-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,868 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 $0.00096 $0.02868
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01434
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00287

Measured yesterday against content hash c17447035e85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plugins-management 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/init_marketplace.py, scripts/init_plugin.py, scripts/prepare_submission.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/plugins-management/SKILL.md · 377 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 377 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugins Manager

Manage plugins across coding agents: create, validate, publish, delete, and submit to official directories or npm.

Supported agents:

  • Claude Code: .claude-plugin/plugin.json-based plugins, distributed via marketplaces
  • OpenCode: TypeScript/JavaScript plugins in .opencode/plugins/ or npm packages listed in opencode.json

CRITICAL: Before performing any deletion, uninstall, or removal operation, you MUST use the AskUserQuestion tool to confirm with the user. Never delete/uninstall plugins or remove marketplaces without explicit user confirmation.

Quick Reference

Task Command/Script
Create plugin python scripts/init_plugin.py <name>
Create marketplace python scripts/init_marketplace.py <name>
Validate plugin python scripts/validate_plugin.py <path>
Validate marketplace claude plugin validate <path>
Prepare submission python scripts/prepare_submission.py <path> --email X --company-url Y
Install plugin /plugin install <name>@<marketplace>
Delete plugin /plugin uninstall <name>@<marketplace>
Test plugin (dev) claude --plugin-dir ./my-plugin
Reload after edits /reload-plugins
Cut release tag claude plugin tag --push
List installed claude plugin list [--json] [--available]
Update plugin claude plugin update <name>@<marketplace>

Workflows

1. Create a New Plugin

# Basic plugin with commands
python scripts/init_plugin.py my-plugin --path ./

# Full plugin with all components
python scripts/init_plugin.py my-plugin --path ./ --all

# Specific components
python scripts/init_plugin.py my-plugin --with-agents --with-skills

Flags:

  • --with-commands (default): Include commands directory
  • --with-agents: Include agents directory
  • --with-skills: Include skills directory
  • --with-hooks: Include hooks configuration
  • --with-mcp: Include MCP server configuration
  • --all: Include all components
  • --author "Name": Set author name

Read the full file on GitHub · 377 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 · 377 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A c17447035e85

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plugins-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development (131 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,868 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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