Plugin-bundled skills not discovered by skill registry
Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Mar 20, 2026 by kcssltd Closed Mar 20, 2026
Bug Description
Skills bundled inside Claude Code plugins (installed via claude plugin install) are not discovered by the skill registry, except for skills that are also independently installed via npx skills into ~/.claude/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/.
Steps to Reproduce
- Install the superpowers plugin:
claude plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official - Verify it's installed and enabled:
claude plugin listshowssuperpowers@claude-plugins-officialv5.0.5, enabled - Start a new Claude Code session
- Try to invoke any bundled skill (e.g.,
/brainstorming) — returns "Unknown skill"
Expected Behavior
All 14 skills in the plugin's skills/ directory should be discoverable and invocable:
- brainstorming, dispatching-parallel-agents, executing-plans, finishing-a-development-branch, receiving-code-review, requesting-code-review, subagent-driven-development, systematic-debugging, test-driven-development, using-git-worktrees, using-superpowers, verification-before-completion, writing-plans, writing-skills
Actual Behavior
Only using-superpowers is discovered — because it happens to also be installed as a standalone skill in ~/.agents/skills/using-superpowers/ (via npx skills add). The other 13 skills exist on disk in the plugin cache but are invisible to the skill registry.
Investigation
- Plugin install path:
~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-plugins-official/superpowers/5.0.5/ - All 14 skills exist under
skills/in that path with valid YAML frontmatter (name:,description:) - Skill discovery appears to scan
~/.claude/skills/and~/.agents/skills/but does not scan plugin cache directories (~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/) - The plugin's
package.jsonis minimal (no explicit skills manifest), so discovery likely relies on directory scanning convention
Environment
- macOS (Darwin 24.5.0)
- Claude Code (latest as of 2026-03-20)
- Plugin: superpowers@claude-plugins-official v5.0.5
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