J. RABATIN // CLAUDE OPSFIELD MANUAL · GUIDE
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Bundle your skills into a shareable plugin

A single skill helps you. A plugin helps your whole team. Here's how to package a set of skills into one install and distribute your standards.

Reference Guidewith a downloadable resource for your Claude Code sandbox

What's inside

  1. Group skills that belong together
  2. Package a set as a plugin
  3. Sharing a single skill
  4. Distribute to your team
Section 01

Group skills that belong together

A plugin is nothing fancy — it's a tidy collection of skills, each in its own named folder with a SKILL.md inside. Cluster the skills that support the same workflow: a content kit, a research kit, an ops kit.

Keeping each skill in its own folder is the whole structure. Get that right and packaging is trivial.

Mental modelOne skill is a tool. A plugin is the toolbox you hand someone on day one.
Section 02

Package a set as a plugin

When you have multiple skills to share, zip the folders together and upload the bundle as a personal plugin. Everyone who installs it gets all the skills at once.

Customize -> Personal plugins -> "+" -> Create plugin
       -> Upload plugin -> upload your .zip
Section 03

Sharing a single skill

If you only have one skill, you don't need a plugin at all. Upload it directly as a skill — either a zipped folder or a single SKILL.md file. Use plugins only when you're bundling several skills together.

Customize -> Skills -> "+" -> Create skill
       -> Upload a skill -> upload .zip or SKILL.md
Rule of thumbOne skill = upload a skill. Several related skills = bundle a plugin.
Section 04

Distribute to your team

Send the plugin file directly, or commit the skill folders into your project's repository so they travel with the code. Either way, everyone ends up running the same standards — your format, your process, your defaults — without re-explaining anything.

This is the moment a personal habit becomes a team system.

In your sandboxCommit a skills/ directory to the repo. Anyone who pulls the project gets the whole set automatically.
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The plugin packaging guide

Folder structure, zip steps, and the exact upload paths for both single skills and full plugins.

Folder structure
One skill upload
Plugin upload
Naming rules
What to bundle
Repo sharing
Versioning
Team rollout
Troubleshooting
Checklist
✓ Downloaded. Drop it in your skills/ folder and try it in your Claude Code sandbox.