open

open is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DVKolm/claude-plugin-manager. It costs 33 tokens per session (392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that opens a browser-based Plugin Manager for managing Claude Code plugins, including viewing, enabling, disabling, or configuring them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to manage Claude Code plugins through a visual web interface.
Why use it?
It provides the steps for finding an existing local manager or starting one and opening its interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the plugin-manager plugin — 1 skill 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/dvkolm/claude-plugin-manager/open
Any agent
npx skills add DVKolm/claude-plugin-manager --skill open
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DVKolm/claude-plugin-manager

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install plugin-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 392 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 $0.00033 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1b4e5d97d78a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open 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.

skills/open/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Open Plugin Manager

Launch the Plugin Manager web UI in the user's browser.

Steps

  1. Check if server is already running:

Read the file ~/.claude/plugins/plugin-manager.json. If it exists, check if the PID in it is still alive:

  • Linux/macOS: kill -0 <pid> 2>/dev/null && echo "alive" || echo "dead"
  • Windows: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>" 2>NUL | findstr <pid> >NUL && echo alive || echo dead
  1. If alive: Tell the user the Plugin Manager is already running and provide the URL: http://localhost:<port> (they'll need to open it in their browser — the token was already exchanged).

  2. If dead or file doesn't exist: Start the server:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/dist/server.js" &

Read the first line of output — it's a JSON object with url and port.

  1. Open as app window (no browser chrome — looks like a native widget):
  • Windows: start msedge --app="<url>" (Edge app mode, no address bar or tabs)
  • macOS: open -a "Google Chrome" --args --app="<url>"
  • Fallback: Tell the user to open the URL in their browser manually.

Notes

  • The server auto-exits after 30 minutes of inactivity
  • The server binds to localhost only (127.0.0.1)
  • Changes made in the UI take effect on the next Claude Code session
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 · 37 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1b4e5d97d78a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open is a skill published in the GitHub repository DVKolm/claude-plugin-manager (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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