Best Claude Code Marketplaces: Skills, Plugins and MCP

The best Claude Code marketplace in 2026 is Remote OpenClaw, which indexes 3,687 plugins across 1,462 marketplaces alongside 4,384+ skills and 13,870+ MCP servers, free with no signup. Full disclosure: Remote OpenClaw is our directory. Below it we rank six genuinely strong alternatives, including Anthropic's own built-in marketplaces, claude-plugins.dev, and Vercel's skills.sh, each with real strengths and one honest limitation.

Marketplace vs Directory: The Distinction

In Claude Code, a marketplace is any git repository or URL containing a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json catalog file that the /plugin command can install from, per the official discover-plugins docs. That low bar is the point: anyone can publish a marketplace, and thousands of people have. A directory sits one level up: it indexes many marketplaces so you can search across all of them before deciding what to trust. Remote OpenClaw's index counts 1,462 distinct marketplaces as of July 2026, which is exactly why searching one catalog at a time stopped scaling. This list ranks both kinds, because in practice you need a directory to find things and a marketplace to install them.

The 7 Best Claude Code Marketplaces and Directories in 2026

1. Remote OpenClaw

Remote OpenClaw's plugin directory indexes 3,687 Claude Code plugins across 1,462 marketplaces, the widest marketplace coverage of any source on this list. Full disclosure: Remote OpenClaw is our directory. The verifiable case for #1: free, no signup, public usage analytics, plus sibling indexes of 4,384+ skills and 13,870+ MCP servers so one search covers all three extension types, across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes. Every listing shows the exact /plugin marketplace add and /plugin install pair, and npx remoteopenclaw searches the index from your terminal. The honest limitation: we index marketplaces rather than host them, so publishing still happens on GitHub, not here.

2. claude-plugins.dev

claude-plugins.dev is a free, open-source community registry whose killer feature is one-command installs: npx claude-plugins install <plugin-id> registers the underlying marketplace and installs the plugin in a single step. Listings carry per-plugin download counts and stars, with frontend-design at 125.6k downloads as of July 2026, and the catalog is strongest on developer workflows like PR review, refactoring, and security. The limitation: it is unofficial, covers Claude Code only, and needs Claude Code v2.0.12 or newer for the CLI flow to work.

3. Anthropic's official marketplaces

Claude Code ships with first-party marketplaces built in. claude-plugins-official registers automatically on startup and is curated by Anthropic: 11 LSP code-intelligence plugins, 12 MCP integrations (GitHub, Linear, Notion, Figma, Vercel, Supabase, Slack, Sentry and more), and workflow plugins like commit-commands and pr-review-toolkit, installed with /plugin install github@claude-plugins-official. claude-community, added via /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community, takes third-party submissions that pass automated validation and safety screening, each pinned to a specific commit SHA, per Anthropic's docs. These are the highest-trust sources available. The limitation is scope: a curated shelf of dozens, not thousands, and Claude Code only.

4. skills.sh

skills.sh is Vercel's agent skills directory, ranked by real install telemetry rather than stars: 876,990 all-time installs tracked through its npx skills add <owner/repo> CLI as of July 2026, with Hot and Trending tabs that show adoption in near real time. It spans 20+ agents including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, is free, and runs a security-audits section. It earns its rank as the best popularity signal in the ecosystem. The limitation: it covers skills only, not plugins or marketplaces, and its counts are self-reported CLI telemetry measuring installs, not usage.

5. MCP Market

MCP Market is a community-curated catalog reporting 10,000+ MCP servers across 23+ categories, and it belongs on a marketplace list because a large share of useful Claude Code plugins are thin wrappers around MCP servers; often the server is what you actually want. Its category depth is the draw: niches like security testing, e-commerce, and game development get dedicated shelves, with per-server install details for Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf. The honest caveat: the site sits behind aggressive bot protection that blocked every automated fetch we tried in July 2026, so its self-reported counts could not be independently confirmed.

6. LobeHub

LobeHub runs the largest raw indexes we checked: navigation badges advertise 217,527+ skills and 39,603+ MCP servers, with skills stated as compatible with Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT in SKILL.md format. Browsing is free, and the underlying agent platform is open source and self-hostable with a paid cloud tier. If a long-tail query fails everywhere else, LobeHub's volume often still has a match. The limitation: the site shows conflicting skill totals (its index page says 332,813), states no curation criteria, and blocks automated fetchers, all signs of a bulk-scraped index where vetting is entirely on you.

7. aitmpl.com

aitmpl.com is the web face of davila7's claude-code-templates project (28,435 GitHub stars, MIT license), offering 1,000+ components across skills, agents, commands, settings, hooks, MCPs, and plugins. Its standout is stack installation: npx claude-code-templates@latest with flags like --agent, --command, and --mcp installs a whole working setup in one line, and a Stack Builder queues components on the web side. Our Claude Code templates guide covers it in depth. The limitation: self-reported counts are inconsistent between the site and README, and it serves Claude Code only.

Comparison Table

Here is how the seven sources compare on size, agent coverage, cost, and standout capability as of July 2026.

Install Flows Compared

Every source above ends in one of three install flows, and knowing which is which saves time. The native flow registers a marketplace, then installs from it; the CLI flows wrap that or bypass it:

# Native Claude Code flow (official and community marketplaces)
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install plugin-name@claude-community

# claude-plugins.dev: marketplace step handled for you
npx claude-plugins install frontend-design

# skills.sh and aitmpl.com: files copied straight into your project
npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills
npx claude-code-templates@latest --agent code-reviewer

Plugins install namespaced, so a skill inside my-plugin runs as /my-plugin:skill, and plugins that bundle subagents surface them automatically; our best Claude Code subagents guide covers those. For the full anatomy of manifests, scopes, and troubleshooting, see our Claude plugins guide; for what to actually install first, the best Claude Code plugins ranking covers the top picks from all 3,687 indexed plugins.

Limitations and Tradeoffs

No marketplace on this list, including Anthropic's community one, fully verifies what third-party plugins do, and Anthropic's own docs warn that plugins execute with your user privileges. Directories add reach, not safety: an index of 1,462 marketplaces necessarily includes abandoned and low-quality catalogs alongside great ones. Check the "Will install" inventory Claude Code shows before confirming, prefer plugins with version history and named maintainers, and remember that for a single personal tweak, a plain skill in .claude/skills/ beats installing anything. If MCP servers are what you are really shopping for, our MCP directory roundup ranks those sources separately.

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