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find-a-plugin

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Find a Claude Code plugin for a task. Use whenever the user asks whether a plugin, skill or extension exists for something, asks what is available for a topic, or wants a recommendation from the community marketplace.

  • In this repositoryOne other file it gives its agents.

The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

4 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈0

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 4

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Very specific:

    Run shortlist find with the two or three most specific words from the request.

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  2. Very specific:

    If nothing matches, try shortlist categories and browse the closest one rather than reporting nothing.

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  3. Very specific:

    Use shortlist show <name> for the install command.

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  4. Very specific:

    If a candidate is marked as failing, say so before recommending it.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
Files
SKILL.md

Answer from the local catalogue rather than guessing or searching the web. The shortlist command is on PATH while this plugin is enabled.

shortlist find <words...>        search names, descriptions and categories
shortlist categories            every category and its size
shortlist browse <category>     one category, most-starred first
shortlist show <name>           one plugin in full, with the install command
shortlist top [n]               the most-starred entries
shortlist broken                entries that would not load, and why

Useful flags: --limit <n>, --min-stars <n>, --working, --json.

How to answer:

  1. Run shortlist find with the two or three most specific words from the request. Terms are ANDed, so fewer words match more.
  2. If nothing matches, try shortlist categories and browse the closest one rather than reporting nothing.
  3. Show a few candidates with their star counts, not a single pick, and say plainly when the best match is weak.
  4. Use shortlist show <name> for the install command. Do not invent one.
  5. show also reports what the plugin provides and whether it passes the load checks. If a candidate is marked as failing, say so before recommending it. skill-no-description in particular means the plugin installs without complaint and then never activates.

The catalogue is a filtered view of anthropics/claude-plugins-community. Entries without a licence, archived repositories and repositories untouched for 180 days are excluded, so an absence may mean "filtered out" rather than "does not exist". If the user asks why something is missing, data/catalogue-rejected.json in this plugin's directory records the reason for every exclusion.

Star counts describe popularity, not quality. Most of the catalogue has very few stars. Say so when a recommendation rests on a low number.

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