Claude Code plugins hit official marketplace

This is less a feature drop than a platform move for Claude Code. Anthropic is standardizing how teams package prompts, automations, and tool integrations, which makes Claude Code much stickier inside real engineering workflows.

• –Plugins bundle skills, agents, hooks, and MCP servers behind a manifest-based structure instead of loose local config files
• –Anthropic’s official directory supports direct installation through Claude Code, lowering friction for discovery and reuse
• –Marketplace docs show teams can host their own plugin catalogs with version tracking and updates, which matters for internal standards and governance
• –Namespaced plugin commands reduce collisions and make shared workflows more manageable across multiple projects
• –Anthropic explicitly warns users to trust plugins carefully, a reminder that extension ecosystems create real supply-chain and security concerns