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

  1. Open Claude Desktop → Anpassen → Skills
  2. Enable a skill via toggle (e.g. "web-artifacts-builder")
  3. Check settings.json → not updated automatically
  4. Manually add to settings.json: "web-artifacts-builder@claude-plugins-official": true
  5. 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.json only 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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