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Claude skills marketplace: the official one, the community one, and the rest
Yes, there is an official Claude skills marketplace. Anthropic's claude-plugins-official comes built into Claude Code, and its web view listed 530 plugins on November 13, 2026; skills ship inside those plugins. Anthropic also runs a community marketplace and the anthropics/skills repository. Outside Anthropic, skills.sh, SkillsMP and Skills Directory list free skills, and Agensi sells paid ones.
Anthropic's four main catalogs
Anthropic's naming makes this confusing, because four different things get called the Claude marketplace. In Claude Code you install from a marketplace by typing its name after @.
| Catalog | Name you type | What's in it | How you get it | Who checks it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official marketplace | claude-plugins-official | Anthropic's own plugins (commit-commands, code-review, feature-dev, language servers) and, mostly, plugins from partners and other authors | Added for you the first time you start Claude Code in a terminal | Anthropic picks what goes in; it takes no submissions through the directory portal |
| Community marketplace | claude-community | Third-party plugins that authors submitted to Anthropic | /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community | Submitted through Anthropic; nearly every entry is pinned to a commit, and Claude Code refuses a different one |
anthropics/skills | anthropic-agent-skills | Anthropic's example skills, including the docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx skills behind Claude's file features | /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills | Anthropic; the README calls them "for demonstration and educational purposes" |
| Anthropic's directory | Synced as <name>@synced | Plugins and connectors people add on claude.ai and in Cowork | Added on claude.ai; reaches Claude Code through account sync | Every version gets automated validation and a security scan; a person reviews each new listing |
Anthropic publishes a few more catalogs under official names that you add yourself, such as knowledge-work-plugins, plugins mainly for Cowork.
To browse the official catalog, open the Discover tab of /plugin in a session, or claude.com/marketplace on the web, which shows install counts. Before installing, open the plugin's details: for plugins in the official marketplace, opening one by name (/plugin install name@claude-plugins-official) or from the Marketplaces tab shows two context-cost estimates, what it adds to every turn and what it adds when invoked. The pane reached from the Discover list doesn't show them.
What "Anthropic verified" means
On November 13, all ten plugins at the top of claude.com/marketplace carried the label, among them Frontend Design, Superpowers, Code Review, Context7 and Playwright. Anthropic decides the label during review; its docs say there is no separate application for it. Anthropic's docs describe Verified review in detail for MCP connectors, where a reviewer tests each tool. For a plugin, read the label as "Anthropic looked at this", not as a promise about every future version. Anthropic's own security page tells you to review a plugin "whichever marketplace it comes from", because a marketplace's name says who publishes the catalog, not what each plugin does.
Plugins aren't just skills. A plugin can bundle hooks, background monitors and MCP servers, which run with your user permissions outside Claude Code's sandbox, and a bin/ folder that lands on the Bash tool's path. Skills inside it enter Claude's context as instructions. Read hooks/hooks.json, .mcp.json and every file in bin/ before installing; Are agent skills safe? has the full checklist.
Third-party marketplaces that install into Claude
Many popular skills aren't in any Anthropic catalog. Anthropic says plainly that it doesn't review third-party marketplaces.
| Source | How it reaches Claude Code | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| skills.sh | npx skills add owner/repo -a claude-code puts the skill in .claude/skills/ | Install counts, three scanners' results per skill, a lockfile that pins each skill's commit |
| SkillsMP | Links to the GitHub source; you add that repo as a marketplace or copy the folder | The widest search, about 4 million indexed SKILL.md files |
| Skills Directory | The skills CLI (free), or a ZIP download ($4 a skill, or Pro) | A security grade on every skill; Pro ($9 a month) adds downloads and alerts you when a saved skill changes |
| Tessl | npx tessl i github:owner/repo --skill name | Eval results that show whether a skill changes the agent's output, plus Snyk findings |
| Agensi | Connects as an MCP server (a connector in Claude); skills load on demand | Paid skills from verified creators, with a money-back guarantee |
Any GitHub repository with a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json is also a marketplace: /plugin marketplace add owner/repo, then /plugin install plugin@name. That is how most author-run collections, such as Superpowers, are distributed. Install commands for every agent are in How to install agent skills.
Are people selling Claude skills?
Some are, on a small scale next to the free ecosystem. Agensi is the clearest store: buyers top up a balance from $5 (or pay by card for skills priced $5 and up), the agent asks before every purchase, and creators keep 70% with a flat 30% platform fee. The skills on its home page on November 13 cost $5 to $29, so a $9 skill earns its creator $6.30 a sale. MCP Market runs a Sell Skills program too.
The competition is free. The most-installed skills on skills.sh come from Matt Pocock's open-source set, Vercel and HeyGen, and Anthropic's own document skills are Apache 2.0. A paid skill has to encode something those don't: a specialist's method, a maintained integration, or a guarantee.
Is a skill worth installing?
A skill costs nothing to download but something to keep. Claude Code puts every installed skill's name and description into a listing that rides along on every turn; the listing's budget is 1% of the model's context window, and past it Claude Code drops descriptions of the skills you use least. Once a skill runs, its body stays in the conversation, and after compaction Claude Code re-attaches up to 5,000 tokens of each recent skill, 25,000 in total. So ten skills you use beat fifty you might.
Two checks keep the list honest. In Claude Code, /skill-doctor (v2.1.252 or later) reports each skill's context cost and flags skills that never ran. For a quick count from your own history, Zest's free Claude Code skills usage page gives a one-line command that prints every skill Claude Code ran on your machine, with counts; Zest itself, made by this site's publisher, shows the same per engineer across a team and isn't a marketplace.
Next: check a skill before you install it, or go back to all nine marketplaces compared.
Questions
Is there a marketplace for Claude skills?
Yes. Anthropic's official marketplace, claude-plugins-official, comes registered in Claude Code, and claude.com/marketplace listed 530 plugins on November 13, 2026. Anthropic also runs a community marketplace (claude-community) and publishes example skills in anthropics/skills. Third-party sites such as skills.sh, SkillsMP and Skills Directory list more.
What is Claude Marketplace?
Claude Marketplace, at claude.com/marketplace, is the web view of Anthropic's plugin catalog. It shows install counts, marks some plugins Anthropic verified, and its Claude Code button copies the install command, such as claude plugin install name@claude-plugins-official.
Are people selling Claude skills?
Yes, though most popular skills are free. Agensi sells skills that work in Claude and other agents, priced from $5 to $29 among those on its home page, and pays creators 70% of each sale. MCP Market also runs a Sell Skills program.
Are Claude skills free?
Skills themselves are files, and every catalog here is free to install from. Skills are on every claude.ai plan, Free included; Claude Code needs a paid Claude plan (Pro is $17 a month billed annually or $20 monthly) or a Claude Console account.
Is a Claude skill worth installing?
Only if you'll use it. Each installed skill's name and description sit in Claude's context on every turn, so unused skills cost tokens and crowd out the ones you need. Run /skill-doctor in Claude Code to see which skills never run, and turn those off.