enabledPlugins in settings.json does not activate Desktop 'Anpassen' skills in VS Code slash commands
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 15, 2026 by halukmt Closed Mar 18, 2026
Summary
Skills shown in Claude Desktop "Anpassen" panel (cloud-based) and plugins from the local marketplace folder (~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/) appear to be two separate systems that don't synchronize.
Steps to reproduce
- Open Claude Desktop → Anpassen → Skills
- Enable a skill via toggle (e.g. "web-artifacts-builder")
- Check
settings.json→ not updated automatically - Manually add to
settings.json:"web-artifacts-builder@claude-plugins-official": true - Open VS Code → type "/" → skill does NOT appear
Expected behavior
Skills enabled in the "Anpassen" panel should sync to settings.json AND appear in VS Code slash commands.
Actual behavior
- Toggle in "Anpassen" has no effect on
settings.json - Manually adding to
settings.jsononly works if the skill exists locally in~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/claude-plugins-official/plugins/ - Skills visible in Desktop "Anpassen" that are NOT in the local folder (e.g.
web-artifacts-builder) cannot be activated for VS Code at all
Environment
- OS: Windows 11
- Claude Desktop + Claude Code VS Code Extension
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