plugin-creator

Guidance for creating Claude Code plugins, which are packages that add commands, skills, agents, hooks, or connections to outside services. It covers their structure and development process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a plugin, add commands or other components, set up development, and prepare a plugin for testing or distribution.
Why use it?
It helps you decide which plugin parts you need and how to organise them. This avoids guessing how to build, test, or distribute a plugin.

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/severity1/claude-code-plugin-creator/plugin-creator
Any agent
npx skills add severity1/claude-code-plugin-creator --skill plugin-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/severity1/claude-code-plugin-creator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,461 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 $0.00064 $0.01461
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00731
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00146

Measured yesterday against content hash 8bf58c1daf02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plugin-creator 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 1 executable file (scripts/init_plugin.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/plugin-creator/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin Creator

Purpose

This skill guides the creation of Claude Code plugins - modular packages that extend Claude Code with custom slash commands, specialized agents, reusable skills, event hooks, and external service integrations. Use this skill to build plugins ranging from simple utilities to complex development toolkits.

When to Use This Skill

Apply this skill when the user wants to:

  • Create a new Claude Code plugin from scratch
  • Add components to an existing plugin (commands, agents, skills, hooks, MCP servers)
  • Set up a plugin development environment
  • Understand plugin structure and best practices
  • Test or distribute a plugin

Common usage patterns:

  • "Create a plugin with /deploy and /rollback commands"
  • "Build a Python development toolkit plugin"
  • "Add a code formatter hook to my existing plugin"
  • "Create a plugin that integrates with the GitHub API"
  • "Help me scaffold a new Claude Code plugin"

How to Use This Skill

Development Workflow

Follow the core development workflow:

  1. Understanding - Gather 2-3 concrete examples of how the plugin will be used
  2. Planning - Determine which components are needed (commands, agents, skills, hooks, MCP servers)
  3. Implementation - Execute python scripts/init_plugin.py <plugin-name> to scaffold the structure
  4. Customization - Customize generated components, remove unused ones, update metadata
  5. Testing - Install via local marketplace, validate, and iterate

For detailed procedures (Phases 0-5), example scenarios, and distribution guidance, consult references/development-workflow.md.

Component Types:

  • Commands - User-invoked operations (/deploy, /test)
  • Skills - Reusable workflows with bundled resources
  • Agents - Automatic delegation to specialized tasks
  • Hooks - Automatic responses to events
  • MCP servers - External service integration

Consult references/component-specifications.md for detailed component guidance.

Iteration and Refinement

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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 · 151 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8bf58c1daf02

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plugin-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository severity1/claude-code-plugin-creator (5 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,461 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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