plugin-doctor
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Diagnose plugin problems - plugins disabled by unresolved dependencies, missing marketplaces, or cache misses. Use when a skill that should be available is missing, when a plugin appears disabled unexpectedly, when the /plugin Errors tab shows something, or when the user asks to check or verify their AI setup.
3 other projects use a version of this.
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- chadthornton/claude-continuitytheir own version, first seen Sep 30, 2026
- grahac/claude_skillstheir own version, first seen Apr 18, 2026
- oozoofrog/codex-skills-projecttheir own version, first seen Mar 28, 2026
Other versions3 projects use a version of this.
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- grahac/claude_skills★ 2same name
- chadthornton/claude-continuity★ 0same name
- oozoofrog/codex-skills-project★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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After any fix, run /reload-plugins — installing or enabling a plugin does not activate it in the current session.
≈ “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.
Files
Plugin doctor
Reports plugins that loaded with errors, and the exact command to fix each one.
Why this exists
A plugin whose dependency fails to resolve is disabled quietly. The reason is recorded in the /plugin Errors tab, which nobody opens, so the usual symptom is "a skill I installed just isn't there".
The most common cause is a dependency living in a marketplace the user never registered. Dependency resolution only searches marketplaces that have been added, so an unregistered one produces no error at install time — the dependency is simply left unresolved and the dependent plugin is switched off.
Run it
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/doctor.mjs"Report the output to the user. If it lists problems, each one comes with a fix: line — offer to run it.
Interpreting the common errors
| Error | Meaning | Fix |
dependency-unsatisfied | A declared dependency is not installed, or is installed but disabled | Install it. If its marketplace is not registered, claude plugin marketplace add <source> first — Claude Code then resolves the dependency automatically, with no reinstall needed |
cross-marketplace | A plugin depends on another marketplace that is not in the root marketplace's allowCrossMarketplaceDependenciesOn | Add it to catalog/marketplace.yaml and rebuild, or install the dependency manually first (an already-installed dependency satisfies the constraint) |
plugin-cache-miss | Usually follows a rename; the plugin must be re-fetched under its new name | claude plugin install <name>@<marketplace> |
range-conflict | Two plugins demand incompatible versions of the same dependency | Widen or drop one constraint; my-ai-marketplace uses unconstrained dependencies precisely to avoid this |
After any fix, run /reload-plugins — installing or enabling a plugin does not activate it in the current session.
Note on scope
dependency-unsatisfied can also mean the dependency is installed but disabled, which reads as a missing-plugin problem but needs claude plugin enable rather than an install. The doctor output distinguishes these: anything merely disabled is listed separately, under "Also disabled".
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