Claude Code Plugins: Orchestration and Automation

⚡ Updated for Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 & Haiku 4.5 — Three-tier model strategy for optimal performance

🎯 Agent Skills Enabled — 146 specialized skills extend Claude's capabilities across plugins with progressive disclosure

A comprehensive production-ready system combining 112 specialized AI agents, 16 multi-agent workflow orchestrators, 146 agent skills, and 79 development tools organized into 72 focused, single-purpose plugins for Claude Code.

Overview

This unified repository provides everything needed for intelligent automation and multi-agent orchestration across modern software development:

• 72 Focused Plugins - Granular, single-purpose plugins optimized for minimal token usage and composability
• 112 Specialized Agents - Domain experts with deep knowledge across architecture, languages, infrastructure, quality, data/AI, documentation, business operations, and SEO
• 146 Agent Skills - Modular knowledge packages with progressive disclosure for specialized expertise
• 16 Workflow Orchestrators - Multi-agent coordination systems for complex operations like full-stack development, security hardening, ML pipelines, and incident response
• 79 Development Tools - Optimized utilities including project scaffolding, security scanning, test automation, and infrastructure setup

Key Features

• Granular Plugin Architecture: 72 focused plugins optimized for minimal token usage
• Comprehensive Tooling: 79 development tools including test generation, scaffolding, and security scanning
• 100% Agent Coverage: All plugins include specialized agents
• Agent Skills: 146 specialized skills following for progressive disclosure and token efficiency
• Clear Organization: 23 categories with 1-6 plugins each for easy discovery
• Efficient Design: Average 3.4 components per plugin (follows Anthropic's 2-8 pattern)

How It Works

Each plugin is completely isolated with its own agents, commands, and skills:

• Install only what you need - Each plugin loads only its specific agents, commands, and skills
• Minimal token usage - No unnecessary resources loaded into context
• Mix and match - Compose multiple plugins for complex workflows
• Clear boundaries - Each plugin has a single, focused purpose
• Progressive disclosure - Skills load knowledge only when activated

Example: Installing python-development loads 3 Python agents, 1 scaffolding tool, and makes 16 skills available (~1000 tokens), not the entire marketplace.

Quick Start

Step 1: Add the Marketplace

Add this marketplace to Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents

This makes all 72 plugins available for installation, but does not load any agents or tools into your context.

Step 2: Install Plugins

Browse available plugins:

/plugin

Install the plugins you need:

# Essential development plugins
/plugin install python-development          # Python with 16 specialized skills
/plugin install javascript-typescript       # JS/TS with 4 specialized skills
/plugin install backend-development         # Backend APIs with 3 architecture skills

# Infrastructure & operations
/plugin install kubernetes-operations       # K8s with 4 deployment skills
/plugin install cloud-infrastructure        # AWS/Azure/GCP with 4 cloud skills

# Security & quality
/plugin install security-scanning           # SAST with security skill
/plugin install comprehensive-review       # Multi-perspective code analysis

# Full-stack orchestration
/plugin install full-stack-orchestration   # Multi-agent workflows

Each installed plugin loads only its specific agents, commands, and skills into Claude's context.

Plugins vs Agents

You install plugins, which bundle agents:

# ❌ Wrong - can't install agents directly
/plugin install typescript-pro

# ✅ Right - install the plugin
/plugin install javascript-typescript@claude-code-workflows

Troubleshooting

"Plugin not found" → Use plugin names, not agent names. Add @claude-code-workflows suffix.

Plugins not loading → Clear cache and reinstall:

rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-code-workflows && rm ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json

Documentation

Core Guides

• Plugin Reference - Complete catalog of all 72 plugins
• Agent Reference - All 112 agents organized by category
• Agent Skills - 146 specialized skills with progressive disclosure
• Usage Guide - Commands, workflows, and best practices
• Architecture - Design principles and patterns

Quick Links

• Installation - Get started in 2 steps
• Essential Plugins - Top plugins for immediate productivity
• Command Reference - All slash commands organized by category
• Multi-Agent Workflows - Pre-configured orchestration examples
• Model Configuration - Haiku/Sonnet hybrid orchestration

What's New

Agent Teams Plugin (NEW)

Orchestrate multi-agent teams for parallel workflows using Claude Code's experimental Agent Teams feature:

/plugin install agent-teams@claude-code-workflows

• 7 Team Presets — review, debug, feature, fullstack, research, security, migration
• Parallel Code Review — /team-review src/ --reviewers security,performance,architecture
• Hypothesis-Driven Debugging — /team-debug "API returns 500" --hypotheses 3
• Parallel Feature Development — /team-feature "Add OAuth2 auth" --plan-first
• Research Teams — Parallel investigation across codebase and web sources
• Security Audits — 4 reviewers covering OWASP, auth, dependencies, and secrets
• Migration Support — Coordinated migration with parallel streams and correctness verification

Includes 4 specialized agents, 7 commands, and 6 skills with reference documentation.

→ View agent-teams documentation

Conductor Plugin — Context-Driven Development

Transforms Claude Code into a project management tool with a structured Context → Spec & Plan → Implement workflow:

/plugin install conductor@claude-code-workflows

• Interactive Setup — /conductor:setup creates product vision, tech stack, workflow rules, and style guides
• Track-Based Development — /conductor:new-track generates specifications and phased implementation plans
• TDD Workflow — /conductor:implement executes tasks with verification checkpoints
• Semantic Revert — /conductor:revert undoes work by logical unit (track, phase, or task)
• State Persistence — Resume setup across sessions with persistent project context
• 3 Skills — Context-driven development, track management, workflow patterns

→ View Conductor documentation

Agent Skills (146 skills across 21 plugins)

Specialized knowledge packages following Anthropic's progressive disclosure architecture:

Language Development:

• Python (5 skills): async patterns, testing, packaging, performance, UV package manager
• JavaScript/TypeScript (4 skills): advanced types, Node.js patterns, testing, modern ES6+

Infrastructure & DevOps:

• Kubernetes (4 skills): manifests, Helm charts, GitOps, security policies
• Cloud Infrastructure (4 skills): Terraform, multi-cloud, hybrid networking, cost optimization
• CI/CD (4 skills): pipeline design, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, secrets management

Development & Architecture:

• Backend (3 skills): API design, architecture patterns, microservices
• LLM Applications (8 skills): LangGraph, prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation, embeddings, similarity search, vector tuning, hybrid search

Blockchain & Web3 (4 skills): DeFi protocols, NFT standards, Solidity security, Web3 testing

Project Management:

• Conductor (3 skills): context-driven development, track management, workflow patterns

And more: Framework migration, observability, payment processing, ML operations, security scanning

→ View complete skills documentation

Three-Tier Model Strategy

Strategic model assignment for optimal performance and cost:

Why Opus 4.6 for Critical Agents?

• 80.8% on SWE-bench (industry-leading)
• 65% fewer tokens for complex tasks
• Best for architecture decisions and security audits

Tier 2 Flexibility (inherit): Agents marked inherit use your session's default model, letting you balance cost and capability:

• Set via claude --model opus or claude --model sonnet when starting a session
• Falls back to Sonnet 4.6 if no default specified
• Perfect for frontend/mobile developers who want cost control
• AI/ML engineers can choose Opus for complex model work

Cost Considerations:

• Opus 4.6: $5/$25 per million input/output tokens - Premium for critical work
• Sonnet 4.6: $3/$15 per million tokens - Balanced performance/cost
• Haiku 4.5: $1/$5 per million tokens - Fast, cost-effective operations
• Opus's 65% token reduction on complex tasks often offsets higher rate
• Use inherit tier to control costs for high-volume use cases

Orchestration patterns combine models for efficiency:

Opus (architecture) → Sonnet (development) → Haiku (deployment)

→ View model configuration details

Popular Use Cases

Full-Stack Feature Development

/full-stack-orchestration:full-stack-feature "user authentication with OAuth2"

Coordinates 7+ agents: backend-architect → database-architect → frontend-developer → test-automator → security-auditor → deployment-engineer → observability-engineer

→ View all workflow examples

Security Hardening

/security-scanning:security-hardening --level comprehensive

Multi-agent security assessment with SAST, dependency scanning, and code review.

Python Development with Modern Tools

/python-development:python-scaffold fastapi-microservice

Creates production-ready FastAPI project with async patterns, activating skills:

• async-python-patterns - AsyncIO and concurrency
• python-testing-patterns - pytest and fixtures
• uv-package-manager - Fast dependency management

Kubernetes Deployment

# Activates k8s skills automatically
"Create production Kubernetes deployment with Helm chart and GitOps"

Uses kubernetes-architect agent with 4 specialized skills for production-grade configs.

→ View complete usage guide

Plugin Categories

24 categories, 72 plugins:

• 🎨 Development (4) - debugging, backend, frontend, multi-platform
• 📚 Documentation (3) - code docs, API specs, diagrams, C4 architecture
• 🔄 Workflows (5) - git, full-stack, TDD, Conductor (context-driven development), Agent Teams (multi-agent orchestration)
• ✅ Testing (2) - unit testing, TDD workflows
• 🔍 Quality (2) - comprehensive review, performance
• 🤖 AI & ML (4) - LLM apps, agent orchestration, context, MLOps
• 📊 Data (2) - data engineering, data validation
• 🗄️ Database (2) - database design, migrations
• 🚨 Operations (4) - incident response, diagnostics, distributed debugging, observability
• ⚡ Performance (2) - application performance, database/cloud optimization
• ☁️ Infrastructure (5) - deployment, validation, Kubernetes, cloud, CI/CD
• 🔒 Security (4) - scanning, compliance, backend/API, frontend/mobile
• 💻 Languages (7) - Python, JS/TS, systems, JVM, scripting, functional, embedded
• 🔗 Blockchain (1) - smart contracts, DeFi, Web3
• 💰 Finance (1) - quantitative trading, risk management
• 💳 Payments (1) - Stripe, PayPal, billing
• 🎮 Gaming (1) - Unity, Minecraft plugins
• 📢 Marketing (4) - SEO content, technical SEO, SEO analysis, content marketing
• 💼 Business (3) - analytics, HR/legal, customer/sales
• And more...

→ View complete plugin catalog

Architecture Highlights

Granular Design

• Single responsibility - Each plugin does one thing well
• Minimal token usage - Average 3.4 components per plugin
• Composable - Mix and match for complex workflows
• 100% coverage - All 112 agents accessible across plugins

Progressive Disclosure (Skills)

Three-tier architecture for token efficiency:

1. Metadata - Name and activation criteria (always loaded)
2. Instructions - Core guidance (loaded when activated)
3. Resources - Examples and templates (loaded on demand)

Repository Structure

claude-agents/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json          # 72 plugins
├── plugins/
│   ├── python-development/
│   │   ├── agents/               # 3 Python experts
│   │   ├── commands/             # Scaffolding tool
│   │   └── skills/               # 5 specialized skills
│   ├── kubernetes-operations/
│   │   ├── agents/               # K8s architect
│   │   ├── commands/             # Deployment tools
│   │   └── skills/               # 4 K8s skills
│   └── ... (65 more plugins)
├── docs/                          # Comprehensive documentation
└── README.md                      # This file

→ View architecture details

Contributing

To add new agents, skills, or commands:

1. Identify or create the appropriate plugin directory in plugins/
2. Create .md files in the appropriate subdirectory:
   • agents/ - For specialized agents
   • commands/ - For tools and workflows
   • skills/ - For modular knowledge packages
3. Follow naming conventions (lowercase, hyphen-separated)
4. Write clear activation criteria and comprehensive content
5. Update the plugin definition in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json

See Architecture Documentation for detailed guidelines.

Resources

Documentation

• Claude Code Documentation
• Plugins Guide
• Subagents Guide
• Agent Skills Guide
• Slash Commands Reference

This Repository

• Plugin Reference
• Agent Reference
• Agent Skills Guide
• Usage Guide
• Architecture

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

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