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The README named the catalog correctly, but stopped one step short of a working setup: it documented /plugin marketplace add netresearch/claude-code-marketplace and never the /plugin install line that has to follow it. Following it left you with a registered marketplace and no plugin.

/plugin marketplace add netresearch/claude-code-marketplace
/plugin install cli-tools@netresearch-claude-code-marketplace

The install target is the catalog entry namecli-tools here — which is not always the repo name, and the right-hand side is the marketplace name rather than owner/repo.

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The marketplace-free route, which is supported rather than a workaround. Claude Code 2.1.157: "Plugins in .claude/skills directories are now automatically loaded, no marketplace required." A clone under ~/.claude/skills/cli-tools loads as cli-tools@skills-dir with hooks, agents and commands intact.

The npx skills section now says what it leaves out: it installs SKILL.md-based skills only, so this repo's hooks are not installed by it.

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This came out of netresearch/retro-skill#90, where a user found the documented steps unusable. That repo pointed marketplace add at itself, which fails outright; this repo was never broken, only incomplete. The shared template both came from is fixed in netresearch/skill-repo-skill#291.

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Review on this PR found four defects in the section above, all fixed here:

  • The limitation note sat inside the bash fence under "Git Clone", so it rendered as shell input and would be copied along with the command. It now follows the npx example, which is what it is about.
  • git clone into ~/.claude/skills/<name> fails on a fresh setup where that parent does not exist. mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills precedes it.
  • "Update with git pull" ran wherever the reader happened to stand. It now names the directory and says a new session is needed for the change to load.
  • The sentence claimed hooks and commands unconditionally. It now names only what this repository actually ships.

One finding was declined: that the skills-directory route should not be published, because .claude-plugin/plugin.json lists only skills. hooks/hooks.json is discovered by convention rather than declared — of twelve installed plugins carrying a hooks/ directory, Anthropic's own included, none declares a hooks key. The key's absence proves nothing, so the route stays.

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The README named the catalog correctly but stopped one step short: it never
documented the `/plugin install` line, so following it left you with a
registered marketplace and no plugin. The install target is the catalog entry
name `cli-tools`, which is not always the repo name.

Also documents the marketplace-free route from Claude Code 2.1.157 ("Plugins in
.claude/skills directories are now automatically loaded, no marketplace
required"), which loads hooks, agents and commands in place.

Canonical template corrected in netresearch/skill-repo-skill#291.

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README.md updates marketplace-free installation instructions. The instructions create ~/.claude/skills, clarify automatic hook loading, and use an explicit git -C ... pull command followed by a new session. The npx skills limitation note now appears outside the Git Clone code block.

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In `@README.md`:
- Line 92: Move the limitation note out of the fenced Git Clone block and place
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Review on this PR found four defects in the section it adds:

- The limitation note sat inside the `bash` fence under "Git Clone", so it rendered as shell input and would be copied along with the command. It now sits after the npx example, which is what it is about.
- `git clone` into `~/.claude/skills/<name>` fails on a fresh setup where that parent does not exist; `mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills` precedes it.
- "Update with `git pull`" ran wherever the reader happened to stand. It now names the directory and says a new session is needed for the change to load.
- The sentence claimed hooks and commands unconditionally. It now names only what this repository actually ships.

The skills-directory route itself is kept. The review argued it should be dropped because `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` lists only `skills`, but that key is not how hooks are discovered: of twelve installed plugins carrying a `hooks/` directory — Anthropic's own among them — none declares `hooks` in its `plugin.json`. `hooks/hooks.json` is loaded by convention, so its absence from the manifest proves nothing.

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Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
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Copilot review unavailable — self-review below.

The copilot_code_review ruleset cannot deliver: Copilot is out of review quota account-wide, so no review of its can land on this head however often it is requested. This is not an unreviewed PR — CodeRabbit reviewed it, and its findings on this repository are answered and resolved above. Recording the rest of the check here rather than merging silently or waiting on a quota that may not return this month.

What this change is. A six-line correction to the install section, identical in shape across the rollout: the limitation note moved out of the bash fence, mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills added before the clone, the update command given its directory and a session-restart note, and the component sentence narrowed to what this repository actually ships.

How it was verified. The edit was produced by a script that asserts every anchor before replacing it, so a missed anchor aborts instead of silently doing nothing, and its output was compared byte-for-byte against a diff written and reviewed by hand first. The per-repository component sentence was cross-checked against the actual presence of hooks/, commands/ and agents/ in each tree rather than against the manifest. Only README.md is touched, verified in every worktree before committing.

One finding was declined, with evidence. The review argued the skills-directory route should not be published, because .claude-plugin/plugin.json lists only skills. hooks/hooks.json is discovered by convention rather than declared: of twelve installed plugins carrying a hooks/ directory — Anthropic's own claude-plugins-official among them — none declares a hooks key. The key's absence proves nothing about what loads.

Scope of this attestation. One review of one change applied across the repositories that carry it, not twenty independent reviews. The diffs differ only in the repository name and the component list, and both were checked per repository.

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Self-review: 5d672c4

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