I’ve been building a search engine for Claude Code plugins, and after indexing ~33K GitHub repos/components, I figured I’d share some of what I found. The short version: the ecosystem is much more active than I expected, but discovery is still pretty painful. Some numbers: 32,933 plugins indexed Growing by roughly 280/day right now 8,381 added in the last 30 days 175K skills, 63K commands, and 51K agents indexed MCP servers, hooks, LSP servers, output styles, themes, and monitors make up the rest Among plugins with a known last commit date, 17.9% are stale, meaning no commit in the last 90 days 50.4% have zero stars 75% have fewer than 5 stars Only ~7% have both 5+ stars and a commit in the last 30 days That works out to about 2,260 plugins out of ~33K 14,062 distinct authors Median author has 1 plugin The most prolific author has 386 The thing that surprised me most is that abandonment was not the main issue. At least among plugins where commit data is available, most are not stale by commit recency. The bigger problem is that there are thousands of active plugins, but GitHub search is not a great way to figure out which ones are actually worth your attention. That’s why I built ClaudePluginHub: https://claudepluginhub.com/ It indexes GitHub manifests every few hours and lets you search across the actual components inside repos: slash commands, skills, hooks, MCP servers, agents, themes, etc. It also shows stars, commit recency, and maintainer activity. Free to use, no approval gate. Disclosure: I built this solo. It’s an independent directory and is not affiliated with Anthropic. The directory itself is free. There is also a “Plugin Recommender” tool that analyzes your repo and recommends plugins for your stack. Free users get limited weekly usage; the paid plan raises the limits. I also just shipped ownership verification via GitHub OAuth. Only 4 plugins have been claimed so far, so if you maintain a Claude Code plugin and want to claim/manage your listing, I’d genuinely like early feedback. Question for people here: when you’re choosing between 5 plugins that all do roughly the same thing, what signal actually makes the decision for you? Stars feel pretty weak. Recency helps, but it’s not enough. I’m still tuning ranking and would like to know what signals people actually trust. submitted by /u/Heiberik
Originally posted by u/Heiberik on r/ClaudeCode
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