[BUG] Plugin skills appear duplicated in UI — both plugins/cache/ and plugins/marketplaces/ are scanned
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Activity 0 comments · opened Oct 14, 2026
Bug
Plugin skills appear duplicated in the skill listing and UI when both the versioned cache path and the live marketplace path exist for a plugin.
Steps to reproduce
- Install a plugin from a marketplace
- Run
/reload-plugins - Observe that skills like
some-plugin:skill(ommited as they are internal) appear twice in the skill listing UI
Root cause
Claude Code scans skills from both:
~/.claude/plugins/cache/<marketplace>/<plugin>/<version>/skills/~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/<marketplace>/plugins/<plugin>/skills/
Both paths contain identical SKILL.md files, so each skill gets registered twice.
Deleting the cache directory (~/.claude/plugins/cache/) is a temporary workaround, but /reload-plugins recreates it immediately, restoring the duplicate.
Expected behavior
Skills should be registered once. Either only the marketplace path or only the cache path should be scanned — not both.
Environment
- OS: macOS