Topic

Agent skills and plugins

Packaged instructions, tools and configuration that extend a coding agent's behaviour and are distributed alongside a codebase or through a plugin directory.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Claude Code's plugin eval spends six agent runs per case to measure a plugin's lift

Anthropic's plugin eval command runs every case with the plugin loaded and again without it and prints the delta, though the CI threshold it documents still gates on each case's absolute score.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence58