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Claude Code plugin development reveals naming, execution, and filesystem issues

A developer encountered three issues when packaging their Claude Code plugin, two of which stemmed from the plugin's name becoming a prefix for skill calls and the CLI's execution context changing. The fixes involved explicitly qualifying skill calls with the plugin name and using `npx` to ensure the correct CLI version is executed. The third issue, a widely circulated warning about naming conflicts on Linux, was found to be a misunderstanding related to filesystem boundaries rather than naming conventions. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential pitfalls for developers building tools and plugins for AI assistants, emphasizing the need for careful environment and naming convention management.

RANK_REASON Developer's personal account of issues encountered while building and distributing a plugin for a specific tool.

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Claude Code plugin development reveals naming, execution, and filesystem issues

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Isamu Arimoto ·

    Two things broke when I shipped my Claude Code plugin — and one of my fixes was cargo cult

    <p>My skills worked. I'd been using them locally for weeks. Then I packaged them as a plugin, installed it the way a stranger would, and hit things that don't exist locally — and that don't produce an error message pointing at the cause.</p> <p>Two of them were real. The third wa…