A plugin = an AI employee with skills, commands, and access built in.
What Claude Code plugins are, where to find them, and why you need them. Anthropic's marketplace: marketing, sales, design. Plus how to build your own.
Claude Code plugins
A skill is a single muscle. A plugin is a whole specialist: a marketer, a salesperson, a designer. Anthropic has built its own marketplace, and almost nobody is talking about it yet.
The AI employee store
Finance. Sales. Marketing. One prompt.
Claude Code ships with a built-in plugin store, already stocked with ready-made specialists from Anthropic. A marketer. A salesperson. A designer. No setting things up from scratch: install it, call it, it works.
``
$ claude
> /plugin marketplace browse
→ Opens the list of plugins available in your Claude Code
``
Where to find it
The store is already built into Claude Code.
01 · Open Claude Code
In your terminal, run claude inside your project folder.
02 · Open the marketplace
Run this inside the session:
``
/plugin marketplace browse
``
You'll see the list of available marketplaces. Anthropic's is connected by default.
03 · Install the plugin you need
For example, Anthropic's marketing plugin:
``
/plugin install marketing
``
Done. All of the plugin's commands, /marketing:campaign-plan, /marketing:performance-report, and so on, are available right away.
Don't have Claude Code?
Start with installing Claude Code in 5 minutes. Plugins only work there: the browser version of Claude doesn't have this feature yet.
What it is
Not a single file. An entire department behind one button.
A plugin is a set of related tools built around a specific role. Inside Anthropic's marketing plugin you'll find skills for every job a marketer does: campaign planning, metrics reporting, competitive analysis, email campaigns, SEO audits. All under one brand, all working together.
Every plugin can bundle skills, slash commands, subagents, MCP servers, and hooks. It's not a single .md file but a whole folder with a configured workflow. Install it once and your project gains a new role.
``
# Inside Anthropic's marketing plugin
marketing/
├── skills/
│ ├── campaign-plan.md ← /marketing:campaign-plan
│ ├── performance-report.md ← /marketing:performance-report
│ ├── competitive-brief.md ← /marketing:competitive-brief
│ ├── email-sequence.md ← /marketing:email-sequence
│ ├── seo-audit.md ← /marketing:seo-audit
│ ├── brand-review.md ← /marketing:brand-review
│ └── draft-content.md ← /marketing:draft-content
├── agents/
│ └── content-writer.md ← subagent for long-form writing
└── plugin.json ← plugin manifest
``
Why you need them
So you don't have to hire a team.
01 · Speed: no writing prompts from scratch
Every plugin is a set of templates from domain experts, packaged into commands. No need to remember how a marketer plans a campaign: type /marketing:campaign-plan and you get a ready-made brief with metrics.
02 · Cohesion: one department, one context
Commands inside a plugin are aware of each other. A report from /marketing:performance-report can go straight into /marketing:campaign-plan with no data lost along the way.
03 · Standards: Anthropic-grade quality
Plugins in the official marketplace are built by the people who made the model itself. This isn't some random YouTube guide; it's production-grade prompting for Claude 4.7.
04 · Extensibility: you can build your own
If the marketplace doesn't have what you need, build your own plugin, drop it into a GitHub repo with a plugin.json, and any Claude Code can install it. That's how we build plugins for the Russian market.
The Anthropic marketplace
Who's already working in the store.
Anthropic · /marketing · Marketing
Campaign plans, reporting, competitors, email
7 skills covering the full marketing cycle, from competitor research to email sequences and post-campaign reporting. Works well in any niche: EdTech, SaaS, e-commerce.
What's inside: campaign-plan, performance-report, competitive-brief, email-sequence, seo-audit, brand-review, draft-content
Example call: /marketing:performance-report
Anthropic · /sales · Sales
Pipeline, forecasting, meeting briefs, follow-ups
The full sales cycle: daily briefing, call prep, account research, pipeline review, revenue forecasting, post-call follow-up. Hooks into your CRM.
What's inside: daily-briefing, call-prep, account-research, pipeline-review, forecast, call-summary, draft-outreach, competitive-intelligence, create-an-asset
Example call: /sales:pipeline-review
Anthropic · /design · Design
UX copy, research, accessibility, design critique
Not about drawing, but about design thinking: mockup critiques, interface copy, accessibility audits, developer handoff specs, user research synthesis.
What's inside: design-critique, ux-copy, user-research, accessibility-review, design-handoff, research-synthesis, design-system
Example call: /design:design-critique
Anthropic · /agent-sdk-dev · Agent SDK Dev
Build Claude agents in Python or TypeScript
A skeleton for a new SDK app in one command, plus a verifier that checks your code follows SDK best practices. For anyone building on the Anthropic API.
What's inside: new-sdk-app, agent-sdk-verifier-py, agent-sdk-verifier-ts
Example call: /agent-sdk-dev:new-sdk-app
Anthropic · /pr-review-toolkit · PR Review Toolkit
Code review by 5 specialized agents
Not one generic reviewer but five different ones: code-reviewer (business logic), comment-analyzer (code comments), type-design-analyzer (types), silent-failure-hunter (silent errors), pr-test-analyzer (test coverage).
What's inside: review-pr, code-reviewer, code-simplifier, comment-analyzer, type-design-analyzer, silent-failure-hunter, pr-test-analyzer
Example call: /pr-review-toolkit:review-pr
Anthropic · /feature-dev · Feature Dev
The full feature cycle: research → plan → code → review
Launches three specialized agents: code-explorer (studies the existing code), code-architect (designs the architecture), code-reviewer (checks the result). Each runs in its own context, so nobody's attention gets diluted.
What's inside: feature-dev, code-architect, code-explorer, code-reviewer
Example call: /feature-dev
That's not the whole list: the marketplace also has hookify, commit-commands, claude-md-management, anthropic-skills (PDF, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX), and more. See the full list via /plugin marketplace browse inside Claude Code.
Our custom plugins
What we're building for the Russian market.
Anthropic's store has nothing built for the Russian market: VK, Telegram, Russian CRMs, our social networks, our funnels. So we build our own plugins and use them every day.
AGINE · custom · /smm · SMM Content Factory
Content for 9 platforms in 2 hours a day
Trend research via ScrapeCreators, reference deconstruction, safe remixing, AI art direction, image generation, publishing through n8n. A full production stack for a solo team.
What's inside: smm, trend-researcher, content-writer, art-director, publisher
Example call: /smm
AGINE · custom · /sales-assistant · Sales Assistant
An autonomous salesperson in Telegram + Instagram
Monitors every chat, qualifies leads, sends pitches, issues payment details when a lead is ready, keeps a CRM in leads.md. Runs in the background in 30-minute cycles.
What's inside: sales-assistant, lead-qualifier, payment-handler, crm-updater
Example call: /sales-assistant
AGINE · custom · /threads · Threads Automation
Scrapes trends, posts, comments, likes
The full SMM cycle for Threads: scraping the top posts for a keyword, a light remix that swaps the CTA for our Telegram, auto-publishing, replying to comments, plus 10 comments + 10 likes on other people's posts, all in our voice.
What's inside: threads, threads-parser, comment-replier, engagement-bot
Example call: /threads
AGINE · custom · /agine-architect · Architect (operations)
A CTO/COO role for our own business
Reads the MASTER audit, the backlog, and the latest session log. Breaks the work into a sprint, dispatches specialists (backend/frontend/devops/qa) in parallel, synthesizes the diffs, and runs everything through review. Production-grade management for our platform.
What's inside: agine-architect, backend-specialist, frontend-specialist, devops-specialist, qa-specialist, reviewer
Example call: /agine-architect
How to build your own plugin
A GitHub repo + a manifest. That's it.
01 · Create a GitHub repo
Any name, public or private (if it's private, users will need a token).
02 · Add the plugin structure
The skills/, commands/, and agents/ folders, plus a plugin.json file describing the plugin.
03 · Add the repo as a marketplace
In Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add github.com/your/repo. From there it's a normal install via /plugin install.
Frequently asked
How is a plugin different from a skill or MCP?
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Skill | A single .md file with instructions for one task. For example, /smm. |
| MCP server | A connection to an external service (GitHub, Notion, Postgres). Gives Claude access to data. What MCP is. |
| Subagent | A parallel helper with a narrow role. Launched from a skill or another agent. Multi-agent systems. |
| Plugin | A bundle of all of the above. One plugin = multiple skills + commands + subagents + optionally MCP + hooks. An entire role in a single install. |