Claude Plugin Directory · Bear Brown

A few dozen Claude plugins that earned their place. Every listing tested. Every verdict shown.

Not indexed from GitHub stars. Not ranked by copy-click counts. Each entry has a completed audit: install check, risk scan, prose-to-code ratio, and a plain-prose verdict — signed with the commit sha it ran against.


Entries listed

16

Entries tested

16

Last audit

2026-08-03

document-skillsExcellent

Four coordinated skills for reading, editing, and creating Excel, Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files — including financial modeling standards and tracked-change support.

Document-skills is the most polished of the Anthropic example-skill bundles: four coordinated SKILL.md files and Python renderers covering the full Office docum…

Codedocumentsspreadsheets
Tested 2026-08-03
skill-creator (example-skills)Strong

Builds, evaluates, and iteratively improves Claude Code skills using an eval-loop: write → test → grade → rewrite → repeat.

Skill-creator closes the loop on skill development: write a draft, run eval queries through a fresh Claude subprocess, grade pass/fail with a separate grader ag…

Codemetaskill-development
Tested 2026-08-03
linear (claude-tag-plugins)Strong

Full read/write access to Linear via a single GraphQL shell helper — list, search, create, update, and transition issues without leaving your Claude session.

The Linear tag plugin ships a single well-structured skill and one shell helper that handles pagination, output format flags, and JQL-equivalent filtering over …

Codeproject-managementlinear
Tested 2026-08-03
grafana (claude-tag-plugins)Promising

Prompt-only reference for querying Grafana dashboards, datasources, alert rules, and annotations via the REST API.

Grafana is a documentation-only skill: the SKILL.md contains structured curl recipes for dashboards, datasource queries, alert rules, silences, annotations, and…

Promptobservabilitygrafana
Tested 2026-08-03
jira (claude-tag-plugins)Strong

Full read/write access to Jira Cloud via JQL search, issue transitions, comments, and sprint management with a pagination-aware shell helper.

The Jira tag plugin mirrors the Linear one in structure — one skill, one shell helper, credentials injected by the runtime — but adds something the Linear plugi…

Codeproject-managementjira
Tested 2026-08-03
k12-teacher-skillsExcellent

Two lesson-design skills for K-12 educators: standards-aligned lesson planning and differentiation across math, ELA, science, and social studies.

K12-teacher-skills is the most vertically focused first-party plugin in this wave: two SKILL.md files with extensive subject-area reference libraries (math, ELA…

Codeeducationk12
Tested 2026-08-03
finance (knowledge-work-plugins)Promising

Eight accounting workflow skills for month-end close, reconciliation, journal entries, financial statements, variance analysis, and SOX testing.

Finance ships eight skills covering the core accounting close cycle: reconciliation, journal entry prep, close management, financial statements, audit support, …

Promptfinanceaccounting
Tested 2026-08-03
commercial-legal (claude-for-legal)Strong

Ten skills for in-house commercial legal work: NDA review, vendor agreement playbooks, renewal tracking, escalation routing, and SaaS MSA review.

Commercial-legal is the most thoughtfully designed first-party plugin in this wave. Ten skills coordinate a full contract workflow — intake interview, NDA revie…

Promptlegalcontracts
Tested 2026-08-03
math-olympiadStrong

Solves competition math (IMO, Putnam, USAMO, AIME) with adversarial verification: a second fresh-context agent attacks the proof before the answer ships.

Math-olympiad solves a real failure mode in AI-assisted proofs: self-verification is biased toward agreement because the verifier sees its own reasoning chain. …

Codemathproofs
Tested 2026-08-03
hookifyStrong

Creates Claude Code hooks from natural language — analyze your conversation for past mistakes or describe a pattern you want to block, and hookify writes the rule.

Hookify turns Claude into a meta-tool for managing Claude's own behavior: run /hookify to analyze the current conversation and surface patterns worth preventing…

Codehookssafety
Tested 2026-08-03
quickdesignPromising

Drives the QuickDesign CLI to generate UGC promo videos, image edits, and product creatives via Seedance 2.0, Sora 2, Kling, Nano Banana, and GPT Image.

Quickdesign is a high-quality prompt-only plugin for AI media production: 11 cardinal rules covering model selection, reference-image labeling, voice continuity…

Promptvideo-generationimage-generation
Tested 2026-08-03
testdinoPromising

Connects Claude Code to the TestDino hosted MCP server for inspecting test runs, debugging failing cases, and managing manual test suites.

Testdino is a minimal MCP router: seven short skills that tell Claude which TestDino tool to call for each QA workflow — list runs, inspect failures, debug hist…

Prompttestingqa
Tested 2026-08-03
tres-finance-pluginPromising

Blockchain accounting plugin for TRES Finance: 20 skills covering wallet onboarding, ledger reconciliation, cost basis, and DeFi transaction analysis.

Tres-finance is the most complex plugin in this wave: 20 skills coordinating a complete blockchain accounting pipeline — wallet import, on-chain data pull, bala…

Codeblockchaindefi
Tested 2026-08-03
cavemanExcellent

Compresses Claude Code output using caveman-style speech — saves tokens in chat replies without touching code.

Caveman is a tightly scoped, well-documented token-compression skill with clean hooks, zero runtime network calls, and benchmark numbers that are more carefully…

Codeproductivitytoken-efficiency
Tested 2026-08-03
ponytailStrong

Enforces YAGNI and minimal code by scanning for over-engineering, dead code, and unnecessary dependencies.

Ponytail earns its place: a well-structured minimal-code plugin with a ladder-of-minimalism prompt backed by real agentic benchmarks, not handwaved claims. The …

Codecode-qualityminimal-code
Tested 2026-08-03
impeccableStrong

Audits and polishes frontend interfaces with 23 design-focused commands and 59 deterministic local detector rules.

Impeccable is the most substantial of the three: 23 commands, a 59-rule deterministic design detector that runs entirely offline without an LLM or API key, prop…

Codefrontenddesign-audit
Tested 2026-08-03