Installation¶

claude-shared ships as a single Claude Code plugin named nolte-shared. Layout:

Plugin manifest: .claude-plugin/plugin.json
Marketplace descriptor: .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
Skills: skills/<name>/
Agents: 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:

bash /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:

bash 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

Optionally symlink individual skills. That keeps claude-shared alongside your own .claude/ directory: bash 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 you develop inside the claude-shared repo, point Claude Code at the repo root. Claude Code then discovers the skills in place—no file duplication needed:

bash claude --plugin-dir .

Reload changes during a session with:

/reload-plugins

Verify the plugin loaded¶

After startup, /skills lists the entries from this repo—for example nolte-shared:spec and 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