Plugin

A bundle of skills, slash commands, hooks, and/or MCP servers distributed as a single unit. Installed in Claude Code via /plugin install.

Skill

A self-contained capability — instructions plus optional supporting files — that Claude can invoke for specific tasks. Lives under skills/ in a plugin.

Marketplace

A catalog of plugins. This site is the marketplace for 2389 Research plugins. Added in Claude Code with /plugin marketplace add <repo>.

MCP server

Model Context Protocol server. Exposes tools, resources, and prompts to Claude over a standard protocol. Some plugins ship MCP servers; others integrate with existing ones.

Hook

A shell command Claude Code executes in response to events such as tool calls or session start. Configured in settings.json.

Slash command

A user-invocable command typed in Claude Code as /<name>. Slash commands are defined inside skills or as standalone files in a plugin.

Scorecard

A versioned set of automated checks. The a14y scorecard, for example, rates how readable this site is for AI agents.