plugin marketplace add succeeds but doesn't register in known_marketplaces.json

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Mar 20, 2026 by brandon-rhombus Closed May 13, 2026

Bug

/plugin marketplace add reports success and downloads marketplace files, but does not add an entry to ~/.claude/plugins/known_marketplaces.json. This causes /plugin install and /plugin marketplace list to not recognize the marketplace.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Run /plugin marketplace add RhombusSystems/claude-code-plugins
  2. Output: Successfully added marketplace: rhombus-plugins
  3. Run /plugin marketplace list — only claude-plugins-official is shown
  4. Run /plugin install rhombus-user@rhombus-pluginsPlugin "rhombus-user" not found in any marketplace

Observed

  • Files are correctly downloaded to ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/rhombus-plugins/
  • known_marketplaces.json only contains the claude-plugins-official entry — no rhombus-plugins entry was added

Expected

/plugin marketplace add should add the marketplace to known_marketplaces.json so that subsequent commands can discover it.

Workaround

Manually add the entry to ~/.claude/plugins/known_marketplaces.json:

"rhombus-plugins": {
  "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "RhombusSystems/claude-code-plugins" },
  "installLocation": "/Users/brandonsalzberg/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/rhombus-plugins",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-03-20T..."
}

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