Plugin skills exposed twice — under both plugin name and install-hash prefix

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 27, 2026 by sorinisglad Closed May 30, 2026

When a plugin is installed via a marketplace, its skills appear in the available-skills list under two identifiers: the human-readable <plugin-name>:<skill> and a hex-prefixed <install-hash>:<skill>. Both entries point to the same underlying skill files and carry identical descriptions.

Repro:

  1. Install a marketplace plugin that ships skills, e.g. claude plugin install test-deployed@gladly-claude-tools (from sagansystems/gladly-claude-tools).
  2. claude plugin list shows a single registration:

``
❯ test-deployed@gladly-claude-tools
Version: 319bc04a4bf1
Scope: user
Status: ✔ enabled
``

  1. ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json has a single entry.
  2. Start a Claude Code session. The available-skills list contains each plugin skill twice, e.g.:
  • test-deployed:write-testing-steps
  • 319bc04a4bf1:write-testing-steps

The hex prefix matches gitCommitSha / version from installed_plugins.json.

Expected: Each skill appears once, under the plugin's human-readable name.

Actual: Each skill appears twice, under both the name and the install hash. Affects all 7 skills shipped by the plugin in my repro (run-testing-steps, capture-e2e-learning, smoke-sidekick-master, write-testing-steps, review-testing-steps, testing-standards, e2e-testing).

Impact: Wastes context window (duplicate descriptions in the skills system prompt) and may cause the model to be unsure which identifier to call.

Env: Claude Code on macOS (Darwin 25.5.0), single user-scope marketplace install. Persists across uninstall + reinstall.

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