suggest-plugins

An interactive tool for finding add-ons in a curated marketplace or among local plugins and adding selected ones to a ClaudeWorks profile.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for skills, agents, commands, or other plugins, install missing choices after confirmation, and update the active profile.
Why use it?
It lets you refine searches over multiple turns and prevents unrelated parts of bundled plugins from being enabled.

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/mduffy37/claudeworks/suggest-plugins
Any agent
npx skills add Mduffy37/claudeworks --skill suggest-plugins
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mduffy37/claudeworks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,843 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 $0.00073 $0.04843
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02422
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00969
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00484

Measured 2d ago against content hash b446807a2022, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

suggest-plugins 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 2d 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.

src/builtin-plugin/skills/suggest-plugins/SKILL.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are running an interactive discovery session over the curated ClaudeWorks marketplace and the user's local ~/.claude/{skills,agents,commands}/ plugins. Unlike a one-shot recommender, this skill stays resident across multiple user turns: the user searches, you present, the user refines, you re-search, the user picks, you install + add + exclude, the user searches again, and so on until they say they're done. Treat conversational follow-ups as expected, not as pivots.

The skill can perform three kinds of mutation on the user's profile, each gated by an explicit confirmation turn:

  1. Install a not-yet-installed plugin from its sourceUrl via install-plugins.js.
  2. Add an (already-installed or just-installed) plugin to the active profile via patch-profile.js add-plugins.
  3. Exclude items on a mega-bundle plugin via patch-profile.js set-excluded, so only the items that matched the user's query are enabled.

Retrieval mechanics are shared with create-profile via retrieve-plugins.js. You do not grep or jq the marketplace yourself.

Session state (maintained across user turns)

Track these mentally across the entire session. Re-anchor every turn by printing a one-line header at the top of each response:

[suggest-plugins | <profile> | added: <N> | shown: <M>]
  • targetProfile — the profile you are editing. Locked on Step 0; does not change mid-session. If the user says "actually edit frontend-dev instead", end the current session with a summary, then ask them to re-invoke /suggest-plugins from a session running under frontend-dev (or pick frontend-dev explicitly on a fresh invocation).
  • shownPicks — every pick you have presented, numbered continuously across turns. When the user says "add #7" on turn 4, #7 is the 7th pick you've shown overall, not the 7th pick from the most recent search.
  • addedThisSession — picks that have been written to profiles.json during this session. Used for the closing summary and to avoid re-offering picks the user already added.

The anchor line is not cosmetic — it is a state-persistence hack. Claude's context compresses as conversations grow, and the skill body (loaded once at invocation) is the first thing that becomes stale memory. Re-printing the anchor every turn keeps the essential state in the most-recent messages, which are the ones least likely to be compacted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 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. 2d ago First seen · 264 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A b446807a2022

Subscribe to this mod's changes

suggest-plugins is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mduffy37/claudeworks (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 4,843 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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