Skills

Plugin Creator

Scaffold a local Codewhale plugin bundle with a versioned manifest, namespaced Skills...

Install

npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill plugin-creator -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
codewhale-hq/Codewhale41.2k
Category
Engineering
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 1,119 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Scaffold a local Codewhale plugin bundle with a versioned manifest, namespaced Skills, and an explicit trust review.

Plugin Creator

Use this skill when a user wants a local Codewhale plugin bundle. Trusted and enabled bundles may add declarative Skills, commands, agents, hooks, and MCP servers (stdio and remote) through the existing engines. LSP, filesystem roots, and lifecycle mutation are inventory-only. Native extensions (host code) are inventory-only unless the user has turned on the experimental [features] extension_host flag.

Workflow

  1. Pick a Codewhale-owned location:
    • User bundle: ~/.codewhale/plugins/<plugin-name>/
    • Workspace bundle: <workspace>/.codewhale/plugins/<plugin-name>/
  2. Normalize the bundle name to lowercase hyphen-case.
  3. Create plugin.json (Agent Plugins v1.0.0; a legacy plugin.toml stays readable, but new bundles use plugin.json):
{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/plugin.json",
  "name": "my-plugin",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "What this bundle provides"
}
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