Anthropic launches build with Claude marketplace
- Anthropic’s Claude Code now includes an official plugin marketplace, letting developers browse and install prebuilt extensions for skills, agents, hooks, and MCP servers. - The marketplace is built into Claude Code by default through Anthropic’s `claude-plugins-official` catalog, with individual plugins installed on demand via `/plugin`. - The launch extends Anthropic’s push to make Claude more customizable through plugins, skills, and tool integrations. (anthropic.com)
Anthropic has folded an official plugin marketplace into Claude Code, its coding agent for the terminal and Visual Studio Code. (code.claude.com) (anthropic.com) The marketplace lets developers discover and install prebuilt extensions instead of wiring every tool by hand. Anthropic says those plugins can add skills, agents, hooks, and Model Context Protocol servers to Claude Code. (code.claude.com) Anthropic’s documentation says the official catalog, called `claude-plugins-official`, is automatically available when Claude Code starts. Users browse it in the `/plugin` Discover tab and install individual plugins with commands like `/plugin install <name>@claude-plugins-official`. (code.claude.com) That setup matters because Anthropic is trying to turn Claude from a general chatbot into a configurable software agent. In Claude Code, plugins act as installable bundles that can package slash commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks behind one install step. (anthropic.com) Skills are one piece of that system. Anthropic describes them as folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that give an agent extra procedural knowledge, like an onboarding guide for a new hire. (anthropic.com) Subagents and hooks are another piece. Anthropic said in an earlier product update that subagents can split work across parallel tasks, while hooks can trigger actions like tests or linting at specific moments in a workflow. (anthropic.com) The marketplace also gives Anthropic a distribution channel for third-party integrations. The public GitHub repository for `claude-plugins-official` describes it as an Anthropic-managed directory of development tools, productivity plugins, and MCP integrations. (github.com) Anthropic’s docs say developers can also submit plugins to the official marketplace from Claude.ai or the Anthropic Console, or publish their own independent marketplaces. That means the company is not only curating extensions itself but also setting rules for how Claude’s plugin ecosystem is shared. (code.claude.com) The result is a more app-store-like model for Claude Code: add a marketplace once, then install only the pieces you want. Anthropic is betting that packaging tools this way will make Claude easier to extend inside real developer workflows. (code.claude.com)
