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
- Run
/plugin marketplace add RhombusSystems/claude-code-plugins - Output:
Successfully added marketplace: rhombus-plugins - Run
/plugin marketplace list— onlyclaude-plugins-officialis shown - Run
/plugin install rhombus-user@rhombus-plugins—Plugin "rhombus-user" not found in any marketplace
Observed
- Files are correctly downloaded to
~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/rhombus-plugins/ known_marketplaces.jsononly contains theclaude-plugins-officialentry — norhombus-pluginsentry 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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