Plugin Development

by nimadorostkar

Plugin Development is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by nimadorostkar in Claude-Skills-collection.

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Install Plugin Development

Copy Plugin Development 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/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection/tree/main/skills/agent-tooling/plugin-development ~/.claude/skills/plugin-development

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/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/agent-tooling/plugin-development/SKILL.md in nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/plugin-development
Collection: One of 50 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Plugin Development does

Packages skills, commands, hooks, and MCP servers into an installable plugin. Use it when creating manifests, bundling capabilities, testing clean installs, or publishing updates.

Plugin Development is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Plugin Development comes from a repository tagged ai, claude, claude-skills and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Plugin Development

Purpose

Package a coherent set of agent capabilities — skills, slash commands, hooks, and MCP servers — into something another person can install in one step and that works immediately.

When to Use

Distributing skills or commands to a team or publicly.
Bundling a set of related capabilities that belong together.
Publishing to a plugin marketplace.
Versioning and updating an existing plugin.

Capabilities

Plugin structure and manifest.
Bundling skills, commands, hooks, agents, and MCP servers.
Versioning and compatibility.
Testing a plugin before distribution.
Marketplace publication.

Inputs

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

Commands Plugin Development provides

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

/mcp

Frequently asked about Plugin Development

What else does nimadorostkar publish alongside Plugin Development?
Plugin Development is one of 50 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design, Agent Design and Agent Instructions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Plugin Development does, and is maintained by nimadorostkar in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection page.
How does Plugin Development compare to other Automation skills?
Plugin Development ranks #2204 by stars among the 2226 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Plugin Development against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.