Claude Plugins Community: Marketplace for Claude Code Plugins
Claude Plugins Community is Anthropic’s read-only mirror of the community plugin marketplace for Claude Cowork and Claude Code, including the install source for approved community plugins.
Key takeaways#
- Claude Plugins Community is Anthropic's read-only mirror of the community plugin marketplace for Claude Cowork and Claude Code.
- Claude Code users can add the marketplace with
claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-communityand install plugins from theclaude-communitysource. - Plugin submissions do not happen through pull requests to the mirror; the README points submitters to clau.de/plugin-directory-submission.
- The repository is a resource and marketplace index, not a standalone AI tool or model.
What Claude Plugins Community is#
Claude Plugins Community is a GitHub repository under the anthropics organization. Its README describes it as a read-only mirror of the community plugin marketplace for Claude Cowork and Claude Code. The important file is .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, which lists community plugins available to install.
This makes the repository a resource for discovering and installing Claude plugins, not a plugin by itself. The durable entity is the marketplace mirror and the process around it.
How the marketplace works#
The README says the mirror is synced nightly from the canonical marketplace. It also says listed plugins have been submitted through Claude, passed automated security scanning, and been approved for distribution. That does not mean every plugin is safe for every team, but it does give users a clearer route than copying random commands from social posts.
Claude Cowork users are directed to install plugins through claude.com/plugins. Claude Code users can add the marketplace from the command line, then install a specific plugin by name using the @claude-community source.
Claude Code setup#
For Claude Code, the README shows two commands:
claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community claude plugin install <plugin-name>@claude-community
After adding the marketplace, users should inspect each plugin's description, permissions, and source before enabling it in sensitive repositories. Plugins can change a coding assistant's behavior, so treat them like development dependencies.
Submitting plugins#
The repository is not the submission channel. The README says pull requests opened directly against the repo are closed automatically and that all changes flow through the submission page at clau.de/plugin-directory-submission. That keeps the mirror read-only and gives Anthropic a central review path.
Who should use it#
Claude Plugins Community is best for Claude Code and Claude Cowork users who want vetted community plugins without hunting through separate repos. It is also useful for plugin authors because it points to the official submission flow.
It is not a broad plugin manager for every AI IDE. Its scope is Claude products. Developers using Codex, Cursor, or other assistants should only use this resource if they are also running Claude Code or Claude Cowork.
Maintenance signals#
The GitHub API showed hundreds of stars, more than 100 forks, Apache-2.0 licensing, and recent repository activity at the time this resource was created. Because this is a mirror, users should expect content to change as marketplace submissions are approved.