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18. Packaging and Distributing Workflows (Plugins and Marketplaces)
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In Episode 18 of Beyond Prompting , author Sho Shimoda explores how to bundle your team's custom skills, commands, subagents, hooks, and MCP server configurations into a single, installable unit using Plugins . Rather than manually sharing scattered configuration files with colleagues, Plugins allow teams to package and distribute entire operational capabilities effortlessly. In this episode, we cover: The Anatomy of a Plugin: How a plugin is structured as a directory with a .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest and optional component folders (skills/, commands/, agents/, hooks/, .mcp.json, and workflows/). Automatic Namespacing: How plugin components are namespaced upon arrival (e.g.,…