Report · updated 25 September
Claude’s community plugin catalog stopped adding submissions on 7 August
Partner plugins keep landing in Anthropic’s official marketplace. Developers whose plugins “passed review” are waiting for a community catalog that hasn’t taken a self-serve submission since early August.
What happened
| July | At least 60 community plugins added to the catalog in batches (for example “Add 25 community plugins (consolidated re-batch of reviewed entries)”, 30 July). |
|---|---|
| 6–7 August | The last five self-serve submissions land: prismatic-skills, credible, cala, meticulous and xsolla-ai-kit. |
| 21 August | Anthropic adds its own eli5 plugin to the community catalog. No community submission is added after this. |
| 9–17 September | Developers report submissions showing Passed review that never appear in the catalog: heyyumi, skill-audit, writing-process and four others. |
| 18–24 September | Anthropic adds partner plugins to the separate official marketplace: incident.io, Wingspan, Amazon Selling Partner, GovTribe, Vanguard Advisor Tools and LinqAlpha. |
| 22 September | An official-marketplace commit notes manual version bumps “while the nightly bump workflow is disabled”. |
| 22–23 September | Some developers find their submissions dashboard empty, including one that had passed review. |
What developers are reporting
| Plugin | What they report | Source |
|---|---|---|
| heyyumi | Submitted 9 Sep, passed review ~15 Sep, not in the catalog | Issue |
| skill-audit | Submitted and passed review 16 Sep, not in the catalog | Issue |
| writing-process | Passed review 17 Sep; four more plugins submitted ~3 months ago also show passed | Issue |
| design-dev-bridge | Submitted late July, passed ~9 Sep, dashboard later empty | Issue |
| qrstuff-mcp-server | Submitted 10 Jun, still “Submitted and pending review” in August | Issue |
| Relevio | Submitted 18 Jul, still pending in August | Issue |
More reports, with dates and review times, are on the Claude Plugins page.
What “Passed review” means right now
Review and listing are separate steps. A plugin that passes review has to be pinned into anthropics/claude-plugins-community, the catalog Claude Code installs community plugins from, before anyone can install it. That second step is the one that has stopped. Anthropic has not said why; the official marketplace, where partner plugins are added by hand, is unaffected.
What you can do while you wait
- Check the catalog directly. Search marketplace.json for your plugin name. If it isn’t there, it isn’t installable from the community marketplace, whatever the dashboard says.
- 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, and mark it approved when it appears. That is how this page knows when the catalog moves.
How we know
The catalog is a public file with a public history. Every three hours this page reads the catalog file and compares its plugin names with the ones already seen, so any addition shows up the same day. The 7 August date comes from the file’s commit history: the last squash-merged “Add … plugin” pull requests, which is how self-serve submissions land. Anthropic’s own eli5 plugin, pushed directly on 21 August, is the only addition since. The live status above updates on its own, and subscribers to Claude Plugins alerts get an email the day the catalog adds submissions again.