Plugin Creator Overview Plugins are shareable packages that bundle skills, agents, commands, hooks, MCP servers, and LSP servers into installable units for Claude Code. A plugin requires only a manifest at minimum; all other components are optional and auto-discovered from conventional directories at the plugin root. When to use: Sharing functionality across projects or teams, distributing through marketplaces, versioning reusable agent capabilities, bundling MCP servers with skills. When NOT to use: Single-project customizations (use directory instead), quick experiments before packaging, pe…