Discover and install prebuilt plugins through marketplaces

Find and install plugins from marketplaces to extend Claude Code with new commands, agents, and capabilities.

Plugins extend Claude Code with custom commands, agents, hooks, and MCP servers. Plugin marketplaces are catalogs that help you discover and install these extensions without building them yourself.

Looking to create and distribute your own marketplace? See Create and distribute a plugin marketplace.

How marketplaces work

A marketplace is a catalog of plugins that someone else has created and shared. Using a marketplace is a two-step process:

Think of it like adding an app store: adding the store gives you access to browse its collection, but you still choose which apps to download individually.

Official Anthropic marketplace

The official Anthropic marketplace (claude-plugins-official) is automatically available when you start Claude Code. Run /plugin and go to the Discover tab to browse what's available.

To install a plugin from the official marketplace:

/plugin install plugin-name@claude-plugins-official

The official marketplace includes several categories of plugins:

Code intelligence

Code intelligence plugins help Claude understand your codebase more deeply. With these plugins installed, Claude can jump to definitions, find references, and see type errors immediately after edits. These plugins use the Language Server Protocol (LSP), the same technology that powers VS Code's code intelligence.

These plugins require the language server binary to be installed on your system. If you already have a language server installed, Claude may prompt you to install the corresponding plugin when you open a project.

You can also create your own LSP plugin for other languages.

External integrations

These plugins bundle pre-configured MCP servers so you can connect Claude to external services without manual setup:

• Source control: github, gitlab
• Project management: atlassian (Jira/Confluence), asana, linear, notion
• Design: figma
• Infrastructure: vercel, firebase, supabase
• Communication: slack
• Monitoring: sentry

Development workflows

Plugins that add commands and agents for common development tasks:

• commit-commands: Git commit workflows including commit, push, and PR creation
• pr-review-toolkit: Specialized agents for reviewing pull requests
• agent-sdk-dev: Tools for building with the Claude Agent SDK
• plugin-dev: Toolkit for creating your own plugins

Output styles

Customize how Claude responds:

• explanatory-output-style: Educational insights about implementation choices
• learning-output-style: Interactive learning mode for skill building

Try it: add the demo marketplace

Anthropic also maintains a demo plugins marketplace (claude-code-plugins) with example plugins that show what's possible with the plugin system. Unlike the official marketplace, you need to add this one manually.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code

/plugin install commit-commands@anthropics-claude-code

/commit-commands:commit

The rest of this guide covers all the ways you can add marketplaces, install plugins, and manage your configuration.

Add marketplaces

Use the /plugin marketplace add command to add marketplaces from different sources.

• GitHub repositories: owner/repo format (for example, anthropics/claude-code)
• Git URLs: any git repository URL (GitLab, Bitbucket, self-hosted)
• Local paths: directories or direct paths to marketplace.json files
• Remote URLs: direct URLs to hosted marketplace.json files

Add from GitHub

Add a GitHub repository that contains a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json file using the owner/repo format—where owner is the GitHub username or organization and repo is the repository name.

For example, anthropics/claude-code refers to the claude-code repository owned by anthropics:

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code

Add from other Git hosts

Add any git repository by providing the full URL. This works with any Git host, including GitLab, Bitbucket, and self-hosted servers:

Using HTTPS:

/plugin marketplace add https://gitlab.com/company/plugins.git

Using SSH:

/plugin marketplace add git@gitlab.com:company/plugins.git

To add a specific branch or tag, append # followed by the ref:

/plugin marketplace add https://gitlab.com/company/plugins.git#v1.0.0

Add from local paths

Add a local directory that contains a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json file:

/plugin marketplace add ./my-marketplace

You can also add a direct path to a marketplace.json file:

/plugin marketplace add ./path/to/marketplace.json

Or add a remote marketplace.json file via URL:

/plugin marketplace add https://example.com/marketplace.json

Install plugins

Once you've added marketplaces, you can install plugins directly (installs to user scope by default):

/plugin install plugin-name@marketplace-name

To choose a different installation scope, use the interactive UI: run /plugin, go to the Discover tab, and press Enter on a plugin. You'll see options for:

• User scope (default): install for yourself across all projects
• Project scope: install for all collaborators on this repository (adds to .claude/settings.json)
• Local scope: install for yourself in this repository only (not shared with collaborators)

You may also see plugins with managed scope—these are installed by enterprise administrators via managed settings and cannot be modified.

Run /plugin and go to the Installed tab to see your plugins grouped by scope.

Manage installed plugins

Run /plugin and go to the Installed tab to view, enable, disable, or uninstall your plugins.

You can also manage plugins with direct commands.

Disable a plugin without uninstalling:

/plugin disable plugin-name@marketplace-name

Re-enable a disabled plugin:

/plugin enable plugin-name@marketplace-name

Completely remove a plugin:

/plugin uninstall plugin-name@marketplace-name

The --scope option lets you target a specific scope with CLI commands:

claude plugin install formatter@your-org --scope project
claude plugin uninstall formatter@your-org --scope project

Manage marketplaces

You can manage marketplaces through the interactive /plugin interface or with CLI commands.

Use the interactive interface

Run /plugin and go to the Marketplaces tab to:

• View all your added marketplaces with their sources and status
• Add new marketplaces
• Update marketplace listings to fetch the latest plugins
• Remove marketplaces you no longer need

Use CLI commands

You can also manage marketplaces with direct commands.

List all configured marketplaces:

/plugin marketplace list

Refresh plugin listings from a marketplace:

/plugin marketplace update marketplace-name

Remove a marketplace:

/plugin marketplace remove marketplace-name

Configure auto-updates

Claude Code can automatically update marketplaces and their installed plugins at startup. When auto-update is enabled for a marketplace, Claude Code refreshes the marketplace data and updates installed plugins to their latest versions. If any plugins were updated, you'll see a notification suggesting you restart Claude Code.

Toggle auto-update for individual marketplaces through the UI:

1. Run /plugin to open the plugin manager
2. Select Marketplaces
3. Choose a marketplace from the list
4. Select Enable auto-update or Disable auto-update

Official Anthropic marketplaces have auto-update enabled by default. Third-party and local development marketplaces have auto-update disabled by default.

To disable all automatic updates entirely for both Claude Code and all plugins, set the DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER environment variable. See Auto updates for details.

Configure team marketplaces

Team admins can set up automatic marketplace installation for projects by adding marketplace configuration to .claude/settings.json. When team members trust the repository folder, Claude Code prompts them to install these marketplaces and plugins.

For full configuration options including extraKnownMarketplaces and enabledPlugins, see Plugin settings.

Troubleshooting

/plugin command not recognized

If you see "unknown command" or the /plugin command doesn't appear:

1. Check your version: Run claude --version. Plugins require version 1.0.33 or later.
2. Update Claude Code:
   • Homebrew: brew upgrade claude-code
   • npm: npm update -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
   • Native installer: Re-run the install command from Setup
3. Restart Claude Code: After updating, restart your terminal and run claude again.

Common issues

• Marketplace not loading: Verify the URL is accessible and that .claude-plugin/marketplace.json exists at the path
• Plugin installation failures: Check that plugin source URLs are accessible and repositories are public (or you have access)
• Files not found after installation: Plugins are copied to a cache, so paths referencing files outside the plugin directory won't work

For detailed troubleshooting with solutions, see Troubleshooting in the marketplace guide. For debugging tools, see Debugging and development tools.

Next steps

• Build your own plugins: See Plugins to create custom commands, agents, and hooks
• Create a marketplace: See Create a plugin marketplace to distribute plugins to your team or community
• Technical reference: See Plugins reference for complete specifications

To find navigation and other pages in this documentation, fetch the llms.txt file at: https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt