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Installing via the Claude Code plugin marketplace

This repo hosts its own Claude Code plugin marketplace directly (.claude-plugin/marketplace.json) — no separate registry, no publishing step beyond pushing to main. It bundles all 52 skills into a single installable plugin named cw.

This is the fastest way to get every skill at once inside Claude Code, and it updates in one command whenever new skills ship.

Prerequisites​

  • A recent Claude Code build with plugin support.
  • These are slash commands run inside an interactive Claude Code session (the terminal REPL). The CLI equivalents below work in non-interactive scripts; see Non-interactive / cloud sessions if /plugin isn't available in your environment.

Add the marketplace​

/plugin marketplace add catesandrew/skills

GitHub owner/repo shorthand works directly — no need for the full clone URL. A full https://github.com/catesandrew/skills.git URL or git@github.com:catesandrew/skills.git SSH form also work if you prefer being explicit.

This registers the catalog — it doesn't install anything yet.

Verify it's there​

/plugin

Open the Discover tab to browse what the marketplace offers, or list every marketplace you've added:

/plugin marketplace list

Install the plugin​

/plugin install cw@skills

The part after @ is the marketplace's registered name (the name field in marketplace.json, currently skills) — not the GitHub owner/repo you passed to add. This opens a scope-selection dialog:

  • User scope — installed for you, across every project.
  • Project scope — installed for every collaborator on the current repo (adds it to that repo's .claude/settings.json).
  • Local scope — installed for you, in the current repo only, not shared with collaborators.

If the install summary says Run /reload-plugins to activate., run that command.

Once installed, every skill is available and namespaced under the plugin name — e.g. the commit-message skill becomes /cw:commit-message.

Update later​

New skills or fixes land on main regularly (see the Skills Catalog for what's currently published). Pull in the latest without reinstalling:

/plugin marketplace update skills

Use the marketplace's registered name here too, not the original catesandrew/skills source — check /plugin marketplace list if you're not sure what it's registered as.

Non-interactive / cloud sessions​

If /plugin isn't available (non-interactive shells, some cloud/CI sessions), use the CLI form instead:

claude plugin marketplace add catesandrew/skills
claude plugin marketplace update skills

Or declare the plugin directly under enabledPlugins in .claude/settings.json so it's active without any interactive step.

Other install channels​

The plugin marketplace isn't the only way in — see Getting Started for the skills CLI and npm-package alternatives if you only want a single skill rather than all 52.