Installation¶

claude-shared is packaged as a single Claude Code plugin named nolte-shared. The plugin manifest lives at .claude-plugin/plugin.json, the marketplace descriptor at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, skills under skills/<name>/, agents under agents/<name>.md.

Prerequisites¶

Claude Code installed
A local checkout of this repository (or a location Claude Code can access)

Load in a downstream project¶

Add this repository as a marketplace and install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add nolte/claude-shared
/plugin install nolte-shared@nolte-shared

For local testing without the marketplace flow, load the plugin directly from a local path:

claude --plugin-dir /path/to/claude-shared

Skills from the plugin are invocable under their namespace:

/nolte-shared:spec
/nolte-shared:skill-management

Symlink instead of copying

To use claude-shared alongside your own .claude/ directory, symlink individual skills:

ln -s /path/to/claude-shared/skills/<name> .claude/skills/<name>

They show up in the /skills dialog and survive claude --plugin-dir switches.

Work on the plugin itself (dogfooding)¶

When developing inside the claude-shared repo, launch Claude Code with the plugin pointing at the repo root so skills are discovered without duplicating files:

claude --plugin-dir .

Reload changes during a session with:

/reload-plugins

Verify the plugin loaded¶

After startup, /skills should list entries from this repo (for example nolte-shared:spec, nolte-shared:skill-management). If something is missing, check:

.claude-plugin/plugin.json is valid JSON
Each folder contains skills/<name>/SKILL.md with valid frontmatter
Claude Code was started with the correct --plugin-dir