Plugins

Manage Claude Code plugins without leaving the chat: install from a marketplace, enable or disable what you have, and add marketplaces. Open it from the / menu: Customize → Manage plugins (typing /plugins finds it).

Three tabs: Installed, Available, Marketplaces.

Plugin operations run as one-shot claude plugin … --json processes (the live chat process rejects them). The result of each one is shown in a bar at the top of the dialog, in the CLI’s own words. A change to the active plugins reaches a chat when its CLI process next starts: open a new chat, or resume the session, to pick it up.

Installed

Everything currently installed, enabled ones first, each with its marketplace, version and scope (v1.2.0 · user) and its install and update dates. Hovering a row swaps the dates for the enable/disable toggle, Update and Uninstall. Turn a plugin off to keep it installed but inactive; on to bring it back. Its skills, agents and MCP servers follow the toggle.

Update (↻, on hover) installs the latest version the plugin’s marketplace offers. The CLI refreshes that marketplace first, so there is no need to refresh it by hand. When the plugin is already at the latest version the message says so, and nothing needs a reload. Plugins synced from your claude.ai account have no marketplace behind them and no Update button; manage them on claude.ai.

Available

Everything on offer across your marketplaces, with an install count. A Search plugins… box filters by name and description; the list is sorted by install count and shows the first 30 matches, so search to reach the rest. Install straight from here (installs go to the user scope); the plugin then shows up under Installed. Where a plugin’s source can be browsed, a Source link under its description opens it.

Marketplaces

The marketplaces feeding the Available list. Add one by its source (a GitHub owner/repo, a git URL or a local path), and refresh a marketplace to pull its latest catalogue; the ↻ spins while it fetches. Removing a marketplace drops the plugins it offered from Available (already-installed ones stay).

How it works

Nothing runs against the live chat process: plugin changes go through short-lived claude plugin invocations, so they can’t disturb an in-flight turn. Because plugins live in the CLI’s own store, what you install here is the same set the CLI, the VS Code extension and the terminal see.