BB Plugin Authoring

by get-bb

BB Plugin Authoring is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by get-bb in bb.

2.3K stars253 forkson get-bb/bbAdded 2026/08/18+27% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/18

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Install BB Plugin Authoring

Copy BB Plugin Authoring into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/get-bb/bb/tree/main/apps/server/src/services/skills/builtin-skills/bb-plugin-authoring ~/.claude/skills/bb-plugin-authoring

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/get-bb/bb.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: apps/server/src/services/skills/builtin-skills/bb-plugin-authoring/SKILL.md in get-bb/bb
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/bb-plugin-authoring
Collection: One of 14 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What BB Plugin Authoring does

BB Plugin Authoring covers writing, building, and installing bb plugins, from scaffolding a new plugin to extending bb with CLI commands, agent tools, background services, settings, panels, mention providers, and other surfaces. Use it whenever the task is to create a bb plugin, extend bb itself, or add a bb surface via a plugin.

BB Plugin Authoring is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. BB Plugin Authoring comes from a repository tagged ade, agent-ide, claude-code, codex and devtools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Authoring bb plugins

A bb plugin is a TypeScript package running in-process inside the bb server. Its backend entry default-exports a factory that receives the full plugin API (bb); an optional frontend entry registers React UI inside the bb app; an optional host entry is bundled and runs as a supervised Node worker on targeted enrolled hosts. Plugins are full-trust code in every runtime.

Plugins are on by default. Builtin plugins ship with bb; a few sit behind their own product gates. bb plugin list shows each plugin's status.

Quickstart

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands BB Plugin Authoring provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/host
/api
/ws

Frequently asked about BB Plugin Authoring

What else does get-bb publish alongside BB Plugin Authoring?
BB Plugin Authoring is one of 14 skills that DirSkills catalogs from get-bb/bb, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Automations, Bb Cli and CLI Guide and Skill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way BB Plugin Authoring does, and is maintained by get-bb in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the get-bb/bb page.
How does BB Plugin Authoring compare to other AI Engineering skills?
BB Plugin Authoring ranks #831 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of BB Plugin Authoring against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.