Your Claude Plugin Marketplace Needs More Than a Git Repo

Your Claude Plugin Marketplace Needs More Than a Git Repo Anthropic's official plugin directory has 55+ curated Claude Code plugins since launch. The community tracks another 72. By end of 2026, most large engineering orgs will have a private marketplace too — and most of them will ship the architecture wrong. The mistake: treating the marketplace as a distribution channel when it's actually a governance layer. What a Claude Code Plugin Actually Is A plugin is a directory with a .claude-plugin/p