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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 four ways:
  • Your administrators provision plugins for your organization, and some of them install automatically.
  • You upload a plugin file you have.
  • You ask Claude to create a plugin with you.
  • You add a plugin marketplace and install plugins from it.
Claude for Government does not include a public plugin marketplace; your administrators provision your organization’s plugins. You can also add a plugin marketplace of your own from Browse plugins. Your deployment’s network controls determine whether a marketplace can be downloaded.

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Find and install plugins

Open Customize in the sidebar, then Plugins. The organization plugins you have installed are listed under Organization plugins. To find the rest, select Browse plugins 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. To install a plugin from a file, select Add plugin, 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 plugin, then Create with Claude, and describe the plugin you want. Claude builds it for you, and you install the result.

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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 individual components on or off. To remove a plugin, open it and click Uninstall. Most plugins you uninstall stay removed for you, including ones your administrators set to install automatically. A plugin your organization requires cannot be removed, and Claude Desktop tells you it is required by your organization if you try. 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, and a local MCP server declared by a plugin never runs.