Report · updated 9 November
Claude’s plugin catalog moved in August. Some developers were left behind.
The GitHub file that listed community plugins stopped changing on 7 August. Anthropic’s directory kept listing plugins, 2075 of them without a human review since then. A handful of developers whose plugins passed review still aren’t in it.
What happened
| July | Community plugins are added in batches to a public GitHub file, claude-plugins-community, which Claude Code installs from. |
|---|---|
| 6–8 August | The last additions to that file: prismatic-skills, credible, cala, meticulous and xsolla-ai-kit. Credible, Cala, Meticulous and Xsolla also appear in Anthropic’s directory feed, listed on 7 and 8 August under a marketplace called anthropic-plugin-directory. |
| 8 August on | The GitHub file only gets version bumps and Anthropic’s own eli5 plugin. The directory keeps listing: 2075 plugins without a human review (automated scan only) and 375 reviewed by partners or Anthropic. |
| 9–23 September | Developers report submissions showing Passed review that they can’t find: heyyumi, skill-audit, writing-process and four others; some find their submissions dashboard empty. |
| 25 September | Anthropic launches a directory submission portal that shows review status and feedback, and lets developers publish once approved. |
Plugins listed each week
| Week of | Scan only | Reviewed by a partner or Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| 21 September | 19 | 30 |
| 28 September | 892 | 23 |
| 5 October | 624 | 27 |
| 12 October | 358 | 20 |
| 19 October | 3 | 13 |
| 26 October | 2 | 8 |
| 2 November | 0 | 1 |
| 9 November | 0 | 1 |
By the date Anthropic’s feed gives for each listing.
Developers still waiting
| Plugin | What they reported | In the directory now? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| heyyumi | Submitted 9 Sep, passed review ~15 Sep | No | Issue |
| skill-audit | Submitted and passed review 16 Sep | No | Issue |
| writing-process | Passed review 17 Sep; four more plugins also show passed | Yes | Issue |
| design-dev-bridge | Submitted late July, passed ~9 Sep, dashboard later empty | Yes | Issue |
| qrstuff | Submitted 10 Jun, still pending in August | No | Issue |
| relevio | Submitted 18 Jul, still pending in August | No | Issue |
Checked against the directory feed each day. More reports, with dates and review times, are on the Claude Plugins page.
What “Passed review” means
Passing review and being listed are separate steps. Anthropic’s new portal says that once a plugin is approved, the developer chooses when to publish it. If yours passed review and you can’t find it, look in the directory at claude.ai/directory rather than the old GitHub file, which no longer tracks new listings.
What you can do while you wait
- Check the directory itself. Search claude.ai/directory for your plugin, or look for its name in Anthropic’s public directory feed.
- Distribute from your own marketplace. Claude Code can add any GitHub repository as a marketplace, so users can install today with
/plugin marketplace add your-org/your-repothen/plugin install your-plugin@your-marketplace. Anthropic’s docs cover the format. - Record your dates. Add your submission with your repository link, and we’ll mark it approved when it appears in the directory.
How we know
Every day this page reads api.anthropic.com/api/directory/plugins, the feed claude.ai/directory itself uses. It needs no account, and each entry carries the date it was added and its review state: reviewed by a partner or Anthropic, or listed after the automated scan alone. Every number above comes from it. Earlier versions of this page read only the GitHub catalog file, which is how we got the 7 August claim wrong.