plugins

A tool for keeping installed coding-agent plugins up to date across user and project scopes. It compares what is installed with the local plugin marketplace and reports differences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refresh marketplace data, update installed plugins, install catalog plugins allowed by policy, and report scope or version differences.
Why use it?
It removes the need to check several plugin locations manually and helps reveal when an older or unintended plugin version is being used.

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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/plugins
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill plugins
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,589 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00119 $0.04589
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.02295
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00918
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00459

Measured yesterday against content hash bb6e5422508c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

plugins scanned grade B with 1 finding 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/fleet-state.sh, scripts/fleet-state.test.sh, scripts/normalize-enabled-plugins.sh, …), 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

anything, `sync` may reorder keys in user-scope `~/.claude/settings.json` (machine-local, already
plugins/claude-ops/skills/plugins/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Variables

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Scope

Guarantees that the plugins which actually load, for the machine's user scope, and for any repo you're standing in with its own project/local-scope installs, are the latest published versions of everything the marketplace offers, and surfaces any state where something older or unintended is what really runs.

Distinct from what Claude Code's own background autoUpdate does (see context/scope-semantics.md): autoUpdate silently refreshes marketplace data and bumps already-installed plugins post-startup. It never installs a new catalog plugin, never checks enabledPlugins completeness, never detects or reports scope divergence, and only runs once per session start on its own schedule, not on demand. This skill covers exactly that gap.

Distinct from claude-config's audit skill's plugin-drift check: that check compares a project's committed enabledPlugins against a marketplace's upstream marketplace.json (orphan/new/rename plugin names). This skill compares the local, already-installed state (installed_plugins.json, per-scope enabledPlugins) against the local marketplace catalog, a different axis (install/scope completeness, not settings-vs-upstream drift).

Never silently fixes drift it finds. sync mutates only via the documented CLI actions below, and never writes a committed .claude/settings.json: its Step 5 enables automatically only at user and local scope, and reports a project-scope gap rather than filling it, because sync has no autonomous-session abort behind which a confirm would mean anything. After Step 4 installs anything, sync may reorder keys in user-scope ~/.claude/settings.json (machine-local, already written by claude plugin install -s user) so the map stays alphabetical; it never reorders a project-scope map. converge is the one action that can touch committed settings, and only after an explicit per-plugin confirm. See context/scope-semantics.md for which CLI calls write that file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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 · 292 lines · 119 tokens per session scan B bb6e5422508c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plugins is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 4,589 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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