maintaining-a-marketplace SKILL.md skillA
maintaining-a-marketplace from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/maintaining-a-marketplace@git:20260216.3c056d6Pins git:20260216.3c056d6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
- Path
plugins/ed3d-extending-claude/skills/maintaining-a-marketplace/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260216.3c056d6, committed Feb 16, 2026
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- 253
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- none declared
Use when creating, releasing, or maintaining a Claude Code Plugin Marketplace - covers marketplace.json schema, version management, release checklists, changelog conventions, and validation to prevent sync drift between plugin.json and marketplace.json.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Maintaining a Marketplace
## Overview
A Claude Code Plugin Marketplace is a git repository containing `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` that catalogs plugins for discovery and installation. The primary maintenance challenge is **sync drift** — keeping versions, descriptions, and metadata consistent across `plugin.json`, `marketplace.json`, and `CHANGELOG.md`.
## When to Use
- Setting up a new marketplace from scratch
- Releasing a new plugin version
- Adding a plugin to an existing marketplace
- Auditing marketplace consistency
- Troubleshooting plugin installation failures
## Marketplace Structure
```
my-marketplace/
.claude-plugin/
marketplace.json # Required: marketplace catalog
plugins/
plugin-a/
.claude-plugin/
plugin.json # Required: plugin manifest
skills/
commands/
agents/
plugin-b/
.claude-plugin/
plugin.json
```
## marketplace.json Schema
```json
{
"$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/marketplace.schema.json",
"name": "my-marketplace",
"owner": {
"name": "Your Name",
"email": "you@example.com"
},
"metadata": {
"description": "Brief marketplace description",
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/maintaining-a-marketplace@sha256:c995b48a6cba1d67The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260216.3c056d6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Feb 16, 2026.
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Source
ed3dai/ed3d-plugins · 253 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uonkbe2illypjtu5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/maintaining-a-marketplace GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c995b48a6cba1d67f15a6d33b31b40c4fc958506f05cbafa5cd2705c365c8524
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