With the repo root as the plugin root, `claude plugin install codeman@codeman`
copied the whole checkout into its cache and, because that root carries a
package.json, ran an npm install there: 832 MB, 511 packages and this repo's
postinstall build on every installer's machine (measured from a clean worktree
of the previous commit). A plugin root must be a directory without one.
The plugin is now `plugins/codeman/`: its manifest, a README, and a MIRROR of
`skills/codeman/`. A mirror rather than a symlink because the install copies
the plugin directory and a link pointing outside it would dangle; a mirror
rather than the source because every install path, injector and doc already
names `skills/codeman/`. `scripts/sync-plugin.mjs` (replacing
sync-plugin-version.mjs) mirrors the skill and syncs both manifest versions
inside `version-packages`; `test/plugin-manifest.test.ts` pins byte-identity,
the versions, the absence of a package.json in the plugin root and that the
repo root `.claude-plugin/` holds only the marketplace manifest.
`claude plugin validate --strict` now passes for both the plugin and the repo
root. Install commands are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` at the repo root makes
`/plugin marketplace add Ark0N/Codeman` work, and the one plugin it lists is
the repo itself (`source: "./"`), whose one component is `skills/codeman/`.
So `/plugin install codeman@codeman` is a third install route next to
`npx skills add` and `codeman skill install`, and the skill shows up in the
plugin directories that index Claude Code marketplaces.
Both manifests carry package.json's version: `scripts/sync-plugin-version.mjs`
rewrites them inside `version-packages`, right after `changeset version`, and
`test/plugin-manifest.test.ts` pins the equality, the skill's frontmatter name
(without it the installed skill would be named after a versioned cache dir),
and that no other plugin component (`commands/`, `agents/`, `hooks/`,
`.mcp.json`, `settings.json`) appears at the repo root, since an install would
silently ship it.
Verified with `claude plugin validate` (one expected warning: CLAUDE.md at a
plugin root is not plugin context) and a local marketplace add, install,
details, uninstall cycle against a clean checkout of this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer