## Why
Several small quality issues accumulated across plugin-author and
marketplace-author: the plugin-author description was ambiguous about
scope, the ADD flow asked an unnecessary clarifying question when local
path is the obvious default, VALIDATE had redundant wording already
captured inline, the keywords field was missing from the validation
checklist, and tests/README.md was a placeholder with nothing to test.
## Implementation Notes
- plugin-author: tightened description scope to "inside those
directories"; added `keywords` identical-in-both-manifests check to
VALIDATE checklist.
- marketplace-author: moved reserved-prefix constraint from gotchas
into the ADD checklist item; replaced the four-option prompt with a
default+escape-hatch ("I'll treat this as local path — is that right?");
folded the validate-from-root note inline and removed trailing padding;
deleted tests/README.md — no scripts/ directory exists, so the
placeholder was noise.
- README.md: removed the tests/README.md row from the file table.
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marketplace-author
Adds, removes, and updates plugin entries in the holocron marketplace manifest.
What it does
Manages entries in the plugins[] array of marketplace.json. Always updates both .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and .github/plugin/marketplace.json in the same edit pass — never one without the other. Routes automatically to add, remove, update, or create-from-scratch based on whether the files exist and whether the named plugin is already in the catalog. Runs claude plugin validate . after every mutating operation.
Before you start
Have ready: the plugin name (kebab-case), what you want to do (add/remove/update), and — for add — the source type and source value. If adding from an external repo, know the source type (local path, GitHub, git URL, or npm).
Usage
/marketplace-author
No manual script. This skill is purely agentic — it reads, edits, and writes the marketplace files directly using the Read/Edit/Write tools.
Files
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
Skill instructions for agents |
references/manifest-fields.md |
Full field reference for top-level and per-entry marketplace.json fields, all four source type shapes with examples, and why both files must stay identical |
references/sources.md |
Research provenance — sources that informed this skill |
references/README.md |
Directory meta-documentation for references/ |
Marketplace files managed
| File | Read by |
|---|---|
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json |
Claude Code |
.github/plugin/marketplace.json |
Copilot CLI |