creating-a-plugin SKILL.md skillA
creating-a-plugin 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/creating-a-plugin@git:20260204.611bfd1Pins git:20260204.611bfd1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
- Path
plugins/ed3d-extending-claude/skills/creating-a-plugin/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260204.611bfd1, committed Feb 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 15, 2026
- Size
- 16,181 bytes
- Repository stars
- 253
- License
- none declared
Use when creating a new Claude Code plugin or setting up plugin structure - provides complete file organization, manifest format, and component definitions for commands, agents, skills, hooks, and MCP servers.
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
# Creating a Plugin
## Overview
A **Claude Code plugin** packages reusable components (commands, agents, skills, hooks, MCP servers) for distribution. Create a plugin when you have components that work across multiple projects.
**Don't create a plugin for:**
- Project-specific configurations (use `.claude/` in project root)
- One-off scripts or commands
- Experimental features still in development
**Plugin storage locations:**
- Development: Anywhere during development, installed via `file:///` path
- User-level: `~/.claude/plugins/` (after installation)
- Project-level: `.claude/plugins/` (project-specific installations)
## Quick Start Checklist
Minimal viable plugin:
1. Create directory: `my-plugin/`
2. Create `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` with at minimum:
```json
{
"name": "my-plugin"
}
```
3. Add components (commands, agents, skills, hooks, or MCP servers)
4. Test locally: `/plugin install file:///absolute/path/to/my-plugin`
5. Reload: `/plugin reload`
## Directory Structure
```
my-plugin/
.claude-plugin/
plugin.json # Required: plugin manifest
commands/ # Optional: slash commands
my-command.md
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/creating-a-plugin@sha256:0bc6e7f1e798ad05The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260204.611bfd1, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jan 15, 2026 and Feb 4, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260204.611bfd1 latest | 2026-02-04 | 611bfd1 | 16,181 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260115.cf17c55 | 2026-01-15 | cf17c55 | 16,159 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16181 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ed3dai/ed3d-plugins · 253 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zl6af4wunrwwy66h GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/creating-a-plugin GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0bc6e7f1e798ad05e3cb094e5b757fcdf880b5c2b0c03d69baa2493a65daa53a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.