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Who this is for: Anyone who uses Claude Desktop in Claude for Government and wants to find, install, or create plugins.
A plugin is a package that adds capabilities to Claude in a single step, such as skills, slash commands, sub-agents, and hooks. Plugins work in Cowork and in Code. See the Plugins overview for more on what a plugin can contain.

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Where plugins come from

In Claude for Government, plugins reach you in three ways:
  • Your administrators add plugins for your organization, and some of them install automatically.
  • If your administrators let you add your own plugins, you can upload a plugin file or ask Claude to create a plugin with you.
  • If your administrators let you add plugin marketplaces, you can add a marketplace and install plugins from it.
Claude for Government does not include a public plugin marketplace; your administrators add your organization’s plugins. Your deployment’s network controls determine whether a marketplace you add can be downloaded.

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Find and install plugins

Open Customize in the sidebar, then Plugins, to see the plugins you have installed. To find the rest, select Browse and open the Organization tab, which lists every plugin your administrators have made available to you. A plugin your administrators set to install automatically is already installed. A plugin they offer for you to choose stays available on the Organization tab until you install it. If your administrators let you add your own plugins, you can install a plugin from a file or have Claude build one. To install from a file, select Add, then Upload plugin, and choose the plugin’s .zip file. Claude Desktop shows a notice reminding you to install only plugins you trust, since uploaded plugins are not controlled by Anthropic. To have Claude build one, select Add, then Create with Claude, and describe the plugin you want. Claude builds it for you, and you install the result. If your administrators let you add plugin marketplaces, you can add a marketplace of your own. To add one, select Browse, then select the + button (Add marketplace) at the top right of the Directory that opens.

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Manage installed plugins

Open an installed plugin to see the skills, slash commands, sub-agents, and hooks it provides, and turn the plugin on or off. To remove a plugin, open it, select the three-dot menu, then Remove. Plugins you remove stay removed on this device, including ones your administrators set to install automatically. A plugin you upload or create is added only on the device you are using.

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What plugins add in Claude for Government

A plugin adds its skills, slash commands, sub-agents, and hooks, and its hooks run on your machine at defined points during a session. The connectors you can use are the ones your administrators provide, which appear under Customize, then Connectors. Connectors declared by a plugin you add yourself are not added to Claude Desktop’s connectors.