Plugin Creator

Overview

Plugins are shareable packages that bundle skills, agents, commands, hooks, MCP servers, and LSP servers into installable units for Claude Code. A plugin requires only a .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest at minimum; all other components are optional and auto-discovered from conventional directories at the plugin root.

When to use: Sharing functionality across projects or teams, distributing through marketplaces, versioning reusable agent capabilities, bundling MCP servers with skills.

When NOT to use: Single-project customizations (use .claude/ directory instead), quick experiments before packaging, personal workflows that do not need distribution.

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