Claude Marketplace Template

A template repository for creating your own Claude Code plugin marketplace with a beautiful documentation site.

Features

🎨 Customizable color schemes - Choose from presets or define your own
📦 GitHub Pages integration - Auto-deploy docs on push
🔧 Plugin scaffolding - Create new plugins with one command
✅ Linting - Validate plugin structure with claudelint
🔄 Template updates - Pull updates from this template easily
📚 Auto-generated docs - Beautiful documentation site from plugin metadata

Quick Start

1. Use This Template

Click the "Use this template" button on GitHub to create your own repository.

2. Clone and Setup

git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-marketplace.git
cd your-marketplace
./setup.sh

The setup script will ask you for:

Marketplace name
Owner name
GitHub repository
Color scheme (forest-green, ocean-blue, sunset-orange, royal-purple, crimson-red, or custom)
Whether to keep the example plugin

3. Enable GitHub Pages

1. Go to your repository Settings → Pages 2. Set Source to "Deploy from a branch" 3. Select branch: main and folder: /docs 4. Click Save

Your docs will be available at: https://your-username.github.io/your-marketplace/

After making changes to your plugins, run make update to regenerate the docs, then commit and push.

Usage

Create a New Plugin

make new-plugin NAME=my-awesome-plugin

This creates:

plugins/my-awesome-plugin/
.claude-plugin/plugin.json - Plugin metadata
commands/example.md - Example command
README.md - Plugin documentation

Don't forget to add the plugin to .claude-plugin/marketplace.json!

Lint Your Plugins

make lint

Validates all plugins against claudelint standards.

Update Documentation

make update

Regenerates plugin documentation and website data.

Update from Template

Get the latest improvements from this template:

make update-from-template

This fetches:

Latest docs/index.html (docs site)
Latest build scripts
Re-applies your branding from .template-config.json

Project Structure

your-marketplace/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── marketplace.json       # Marketplace metadata
│   └── settings.json          # Installed plugins
├── .github/workflows/
│   └── lint.yml               # Lint plugins on push/PR
├── .template-config.json      # Your branding configuration
├── docs/
│   ├── index.html            # Documentation site (static)
│   ├── data.json             # Generated plugin data
│   └── .nojekyll             # Disable Jekyll processing
├── plugins/
│   └── example-plugin/       # Example plugin (optional)
├── scripts/
│   ├── apply-branding.py     # Apply customizations
│   ├── build-website.py      # Generate website data
│   └── generate_plugin_docs.py
├── Makefile                   # Development commands
└── README.md

Configuration

Edit .template-config.json to customize:

{
  "template_version": "1.0.0",
  "marketplace_name": "my-plugins",
  "owner_name": "myusername",
  "github_repo": "myusername/my-plugins",
  "color_scheme": {
    "primary": "#228B22",
    "primary_dark": "#1a6b1a",
    "secondary": "#32CD32"
  }
}

After editing, run make update to apply changes.

Color Scheme Presets

| Preset | Primary | Description | |--------|---------|-------------| | forest-green | #228B22 | Classic green | | ocean-blue | #0077be | Deep blue | | sunset-orange | #ff6b35 | Warm orange | | royal-purple | #6a4c93 | Elegant purple | | crimson-red | #dc143c | Bold red |

Plugin Development

Command Structure

Commands are defined in Markdown files under plugins/{name}/commands/:

---
description: Brief description
argument-hint: [optional-args]
---

## Name
plugin-name:command-name

## Synopsis

/plugin-name:command-name [args]


## Description
What this command does...

## Implementation
1. Step-by-step implementation guide

## Return Value
What the command outputs

## Examples
Example usage

## Arguments
- $1: First argument description

See plugins/example-plugin/commands/hello.md for a complete example.

Plugin Metadata

Edit plugins/{name}/.claude-plugin/plugin.json:

{
  "name": "plugin-name",
  "description": "What this plugin does",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "Your Name"
  }
}

Make Targets

| Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | make help | Show all available commands | | make lint | Run plugin linter | | make lint-pull | Pull latest linter image | | make update | Update docs and website data | | make update-from-template | Pull template updates | | make new-plugin NAME=foo | Create a new plugin |

Installation for Users

Users can install your marketplace in Claude Code:

# Add your marketplace
/plugin marketplace add your-username/your-marketplace

# Install a plugin
/plugin install my-plugin@your-marketplace

# Use a command
/my-plugin:hello

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please:

1. Run make lint before committing 2. Update documentation when adding features 3. Follow the existing plugin structure

Resources

License

MIT

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Built with ❤️ using Claude Code

example-plugin

Summary

Install to Claude Code