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OrchestKit v8.43.0 — 111 skills, 37 agents, 210 hooks · Claude Code 2.1.170+

Best Claude Code plugins and marketplaces (2026)

The Claude Code plugin ecosystem, honestly surveyed: Anthropic's official catalogs, the biggest community marketplaces, and where our own plugin fits.

Disclosure: this page lives on the OrchestKit docs site and we maintain OrchestKit, one of the entries below. Every other entry links to its own repository, was verified live in June 2026, and is described in its own README's terms. Star counts are approximate. If we got something wrong, tell us and we will fix it.

Official (Anthropic)

  • claude-plugins-official (Anthropic) — The vetted official plugin catalog, auto-registered in Claude Code at startup — the de facto default marketplace. [~30k stars · Apache-2.0]
  • anthropics/skills (Anthropic) — Reference open-source skills and the home of the SKILL.md standard (since adopted by OpenAI Codex). More a standards repo than a catalog, but the root of the ecosystem. [~149k stars]
  • knowledge-work-plugins (Anthropic) — Role-oriented plugins for non-engineering knowledge work — sales, legal, finance, and similar. [~20k stars]
  • claude-plugins-community (Anthropic (community-reviewed)) — Community submissions mirrored after review. [newer, smaller]

Community plugins and marketplaces

  • OrchestKit (this site) (Yonyon — that's us; see disclosure above) — 111 skills, 37 specialist agents, and 210 lifecycle hooks in one plugin: parallel-agent feature implementation and PR review, fail-closed security hooks, persistent memory, and a docs MCP server (hosted + Docker). [MIT · no account, no hosted service]
  • claude-skills (alirezarezvani) — The most prolific community marketplace by skill count — 338 skills and 13 agents across many domains. [~18k stars · MIT]
  • claude-code-skills (daymade) — A curated set of ~61 deeper, narrower skills — quality-over-quantity philosophy. [~1.2k stars · MIT]
  • awesome-claude-plugins (ComposioHQ) — 40+ plugins including a connector plugin that bridges to ~500 external apps. [~1.7k stars]
  • claude-code-marketplace (netresearch) — Enterprise-flavored marketplace with a TYPO3/PHP focus. [MIT]
  • claudecode-marketplace (henkisdabro) — An opinionated pack oriented at Shopify, go-to-market, and LSP workflows. [smaller, focused]

Discovery and leaderboards

skills.sh indexes skills across agents (Claude Code and OpenAI Codex both speak the SKILL.md standard) with real install counts — OrchestKit's listing is here. The community list awesome-claude-code tracks the wider tooling ecosystem beyond plugins.

How to choose

  • Start official: the auto-registered official catalog is zero-risk and covers common needs.
  • Engineering depth: pick a plugin that encodes practices, not just prompts — look for hooks (enforcement that runs on every tool call) and tests in the plugin's own CI. This is OrchestKit's lane (210 hooks, security suite gating every release) — see the detailed comparison.
  • Breadth of integrations: ComposioHQ's connector approach reaches the most external apps.
  • Building your own agent product instead? You want the SDK layer, not a plugin — Claude Agent SDK vs plugins, explained.