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A complete development methodology for coding agents: brainstorm to clarify requirements, write an implementation plan, then build with subagents, with red-green TDD, systematic debugging and code review throughout. In the official Claude Code and Codex marketplaces.

Official Linear plugin in Anthropic's marketplace: connects the hosted Linear MCP to create and update issues, manage projects and states, and search across workspaces from chat. Needs a Linear account and OAuth authorization.

Product management plugin: writes PRDs from a problem statement, plans and updates roadmaps, generates stakeholder updates, synthesizes user research, and runs competitive analysis and metrics reviews. Official from Anthropic.

Quant trading plugin from the wshobson/agents marketplace: quant analyst and risk manager subagents plus backtesting and risk metrics skills for strategy backtests, portfolio optimization and risk measures like VaR, Sharpe ratio and max drawdown. Needs local Python; not investment advice.

PubMed plugin from Anthropic's life sciences marketplace: connects to the US National Library of Medicine's remote MCP to search biomedical literature and research papers. No account needed.

For preclinical life sciences research: bundles MCP connectors for PubMed, bioRxiv, ChEMBL, Open Targets, ClinicalTrials and more, plus analysis skills for single-cell RNA QC, scvi-tools and nf-core pipelines. Official from Anthropic; some data sources need accounts.

Finance and accounting plugin: prepares journal entries, reconciles accounts, generates income statements, runs variance analysis, manages month-end close and supports SOX audit testing. Can pull data from ERPs and data warehouses. Official from Anthropic.

Linear's official plugin in OpenAI's Codex marketplace: search, create and update Linear issues, projects and initiatives from Codex, and draft PRDs, status updates and customer request summaries. Codex only; needs a Linear account and authorization.

Matt Pocock's engineering skills: /grill-me interrogates requirements to align on intent, then a spec-and-ticket flow, TDD, code review and domain modeling. Small, composable skills, listed in the official Claude Code plugin marketplace.

Atlassian's official plugin: connects the cloud Atlassian MCP to search and create Jira issues, read and write Confluence pages and manage sprints, with skills that turn meeting notes into tasks and generate status reports. Needs an Atlassian Cloud account with OAuth or an API token.

Anthropic's official knowledge work plugin: manages tasks in TASKS.md, remembers colleagues, projects and internal jargon with two-tier memory, and generates a local dashboard. Can sync to-dos with calendar, email and chat tools.

Consensus's official Codex plugin: uses its remote MCP to search 220 million peer-reviewed papers for literature reviews, bibliographies, research gap analysis and cited writing. Needs a Consensus sign-in; the free tier returns a limited number of results.

OpenAI's official Codex plugin that uses the local API of the Zotero desktop app to search your library, export BibTeX, insert citations into LaTeX or Markdown drafts, and import new references after you confirm. Requires Zotero desktop.

Notion's plugin in OpenAI's official Codex marketplace: uses the Notion connector and hosted MCP to search and update workspace pages, with skills for spec-to-implementation plans, research write-ups, meeting prep and knowledge capture. Codex only; needs Notion authorization.

Lets Claude Code watch videos: extracts frames with ffmpeg and transcribes timestamped audio from local files or YouTube links, to review footage, summarize lectures or find on-screen text. Needs Node.js 20+ and ffmpeg (yt-dlp for YouTube); transcribe with local Whisper or a Gemini/OpenAI key.

MLflow's official skills plugin: lets coding agents add MLflow Tracing to LLM apps, analyze failed traces, build evaluation datasets and scorers, and query token and latency metrics, closing the instrument, evaluate, iterate loop. Needs MLflow 3.8+.

Scaffolds a Claude Agent SDK project in Python or TypeScript interactively with /new-sdk-app, then a verifier agent checks dependencies, config and code against official best practices. Maintained by Anthropic.

Has the agent settle on a clear aesthetic direction first, then write distinctive, production-ready frontend interfaces that avoid the generic AI look. Official Anthropic plugin.

Addy Osmani's production-grade engineering skill pack covering spec, planning, implementation, testing, review and shipping, with commands like /spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review and /ship. Supports both Claude Code and Codex.

HeyGen's official video plugin: compose scenes with HTML, CSS and animation and render deterministic MP4s, with skills for promo videos, captions, voiceover and music, and PR walkthrough videos. Needs Node.js 22+ and FFmpeg.

Three layers of security checks on agent-written code: rule-based warnings on about 25 risky patterns during edits, a model review of the diff at turn end, and an agent tracing cross-file bugs like IDOR and SSRF at commit. Official Anthropic plugin; needs Python 3.8+ and model API access.

Anthropic's official plugin that opens PDFs in a local interactive viewer where Claude proposes highlights, comments and approval stamps in batches, walks you through form filling, places signature images and exports an annotated copy. Needs Node.js 18+; signatures are not digital certificates.

Codex-native version of Academic Research Skills: one skill chains topic selection and literature review, drafting, simulated peer review, revision guidance and experiment planning, with citation verification and integrity checks. For grad students and faculty. Needs Codex; CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Anthropic's official study plugin for law students: Socratic questioning, case briefs, outline building, IRAC essay feedback, flashcards and jurisdiction-specific bar prep plans. Deliberately guides thinking instead of writing for the student.

Anthropic's official litigation plugin: manages the case portfolio, deadlines, legal holds and outside counsel progress, and builds claim charts, fact chronologies, witness outlines, first-pass privilege logs and brief section drafts. Outputs are drafts for attorney review.

OpenAI's official Codex plugin with about 50 skills that route questions to genetics, omics, pathway, protein structure, chemistry and clinical evidence sources, can split the work across parallel subagents, and synthesize sourced conclusions.

OpenAI's official Codex plugin that guides sequencing analysis from BCL/FASTQ: QC, RNA-seq differential expression, single-cell, variant calling and metagenomics, favoring nf-core and other public pipelines with reproducible run logs. Checks for local tools first. Research use only.

Official Oracle NetSuite plugin that uses live NetSuite data for CFO dashboards, budget vs. actuals, month-end close readiness, journal entry review, AR/AP aging and cash runway analysis, and drafts board updates. Needs NetSuite with the AI Connector enabled; have finance review results.

Amplitude's official plugin with a remote MCP and nearly 30 analysis skills: build charts and dashboards in plain language, interpret A/B experiments, summarize user feedback, and generate daily or weekly data briefs. Needs an Amplitude account with data (free plan exists); browser sign-in.

'Laziest senior engineer' mode: checks whether the work is needed and whether existing code, the standard library or platform features cover it, then writes the minimum code while keeping validation, error handling and security. For Claude Code and Codex; its hook needs Node.js.

Marketing skills for technical marketers and founders: 50 skills covering conversion optimization, copywriting, SEO and AI search, paid ads, email and cold outreach, pricing, customer research and launch strategy, all sharing one product-marketing context.

End-to-end academic paper plugin: deep research and literature review, writing, multi-perspective simulated peer review, revision and finalization, pausing for your approval at each stage, with built-in citation verification and integrity checks. Licensed CC BY-NC.

Anthropic's official finance agent plugin for fund accounting: reconciles the general ledger and subledger by trade date, lists breaks, traces causes and builds an exception report for sign-off without posting. Runs in Claude Code or Cowork; connect your own GL and subledger data via MCP.

Core financial modeling plugin: builds DCF, LBO, three-statement and comps models, reviews Excel models and banking decks, and centrally configures financial data connectors. The foundation plugin of Anthropic's official financial services suite.

Anthropic's financial-services plugin marketplace: skills, commands and agents for valuation models (DCF, LBO, comps), banking materials, sell-side research, private equity and fund ops, with FactSet, Morningstar and other connectors that may need vendor subscriptions or keys.

Has the agent build single-file HTML interactive playgrounds: visual controls on one side, live preview on the other, and a prompt to copy back into Claude. Templates for design tuning, data exploration, concept maps, doc annotation, code review and architecture diagrams. By Anthropic.

Anthropic's official knowledge work plugin: one question searches your connected chat, email, cloud docs, wiki and project tools at once and returns a sourced answer; can also produce daily or weekly digests. Preset MCP connectors for Slack, Notion, Atlassian, Asana and more, each needing auth.

Anthropic's official business operations plugin: vendor evaluations, process docs (flowcharts, RACI, SOPs), change requests, capacity planning, status reports and runbooks. Works without external tools and does more with ITSM and project management tools connected.

Official Slack (Salesforce) plugin in Anthropic's knowledge work marketplace: connects Slack's hosted MCP to search and send messages, read channels and threads, and manage canvases, with commands for channel digests, standup updates and announcements. Needs workspace admin approval.

Plugin for in-house legal: reviews contracts clause by clause against your negotiation playbook with suggested redlines, triages NDAs green/yellow/red, handles compliance and privacy questions, assesses legal risk and writes briefs. Official from Anthropic; default playbook assumes US law.

SEO audit plugin covering technical SEO, E-E-A-T content quality, Schema markup, Core Web Vitals, local and e-commerce SEO, and GEO for AI search. Parallel subagents audit and return a prioritized action list. Needs Python 3.10+; Playwright optional for SPA rendering and screenshots.

OpenAI's official Codex plugin that turns early product ideas, live pages or screenshots into interactive prototypes, proposing a few visual directions before building. Also reviews user flows, researches user pain points and checks accessibility issues.

OpenAI's official Codex plugin for Outlook mail: triages your inbox, summarizes threads, extracts action items, and drafts replies or forwards, for people who handle heavy email loads. Requires Codex with a ChatGPT sign-in and an authorized Microsoft account.

An end-to-end blogging plugin: topic research, outlines, drafting, rewrites, fact-checking, SEO and AI-citation optimization, plus multilingual publishing. Each post is scored on a 100-point rubric and reworked if under 90. Needs Python 3.11+; optional images and voiceover use a Gemini API key.

Before tool calls run, blocks destructive Git and file commands (git reset --hard, rm -rf) and access to sensitive files like SSH keys and .env. Parses command semantics, so bash -c wrappers are caught too. Works with Claude Code, Codex and other coding CLIs; needs Node.js 18+.

Official BioRender plugin in Anthropic's life sciences marketplace: connects Claude Code to BioRender's scientific icons, templates and figures to find assets and make paper figures, lecture slides and talk graphics. Needs a free BioRender account; authorize it in /plugin after installing.

Anthropic's official K-12 teacher plugin, partly built with Learning Commons: US standards-aligned lesson plans, differentiated lessons, class prep and quick math checks. Skills assume the Learning Commons Knowledge Graph connector; adapt them if you don't have it.

Intuit's official QuickBooks plugin: health checks on profit, cash flow, balance sheet and receivables, peer benchmarking and payroll cost analysis, and drafts payment reminders, estimates and invoices, confirming before writes. Needs QuickBooks Online (official connector); have finance review.

Git commit commands: /commit writes messages in the repo's style, /commit-push-pr branches, commits, pushes and opens a PR in one step (needs the gh CLI), and /clean_gone removes local branches deleted on the remote. Official Anthropic plugin.

A seven-phase feature development workflow: clarify requirements, explore the codebase with parallel subagents, design the architecture, implement, then run a quality review. Start it with /feature-dev. Official Anthropic plugin.