Create Cowork Plugin

Create Cowork Plugin is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in knowledge-work-plugins.

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Install in seconds

Install Create Cowork Plugin

Copy Create Cowork Plugin 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/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/cowork-plugin-management/skills/create-cowork-plugin ~/.claude/skills/create-cowork-plugin

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/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: cowork-plugin-management/skills/create-cowork-plugin/SKILL.md in anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/create-cowork-plugin
Collection: One of 26 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Create Cowork Plugin does

Guides users through creating a Claude Cowork plugin from scratch in a five-phase cowork session, delivering a ready-to-install .plugin file.

Create Cowork Plugin is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Create Cowork Plugin

Build a new plugin from scratch through guided conversation. Walk the user through discovery, planning, design, implementation, and packaging — delivering a ready-to-install .plugin file at the end.

Overview

A plugin is a self-contained directory that extends Claude's capabilities with skills, agents, hooks, and MCP server integrations. This skill encodes the full plugin architecture and a five-phase workflow for creating one conversationally.

The process:

Discovery — understand what the user wants to build
Component Planning — determine which component types are needed
Design & Clarifying Questions — specify each component in detail
Implementation — create all plugin files
Review & Package — deliver the .plugin file

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

Commands Create Cowork Plugin provides

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

/do-thing
/check-thing

Frequently asked about Create Cowork Plugin

What else does anthropics publish alongside Create Cowork Plugin?
Create Cowork Plugin is one of 26 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Review, Analyze Data and Bio-Research Start. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Create Cowork Plugin does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins page.
How does Create Cowork Plugin compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Create Cowork Plugin ranks #260 by stars among the 3670 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 Create Cowork Plugin against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.