New Claude Code Plugins This Week

Overview

The Claude Code plugin directory now indexes 35,071 plugins from 15,790 authors, with 339,028 components across nine categories. The past 7 days added 2,155 new plugins, slightly below the prior week's 2,222. With that volume, the useful signal isn't "what got published" — it's which of the new entries developers are already installing.

This recap walks through eight recently published plugins, ranked by their 7-day install counts. The full new-plugin feed lives at /plugins?sort=newest; this post picks the ones that already have measurable adoption and an enriched summary that explains what they do, so you can decide whether any belong in your setup.

Skills dominate the ecosystem with 206,725 components indexed, followed by commands (64,033) and agents (51,504). Hooks are far rarer at 7,493, and MCP servers sit at 8,460. Most of the new arrivals below are skills-heavy, with a few notable exceptions that ship hooks or an MCP server.

Plugins to Consider

superpowers — 1,001 installs in the past 7 days, 214,245 stars. Ships skills and hooks that enforce a structured TDD workflow with parallel task execution, code review, and root-cause debugging. The plugin guides brainstorming into validated specs, creates isolated git worktrees for feature branches, and runs verification checkpoints before merging or committing. The highest 7-day install count in this batch.

caveman — 866 installs/7d, 64,415 stars. Components: agents, skills, hooks. Targets token costs directly, claiming roughly 75% savings by switching conversations, code reviews, commits, and file edits into a compression scheme. Delegates to compressed subagents for code location, surgical edits, and PR review, and includes utilities to compress memory files and show token usage stats.

everything-claude-code (ecc) — 440 installs/7d, 197,049 stars. The only entry in this group that spans five component categories: commands, agents, skills, hooks, and MCP. Bundles 300+ items focused on multi-agent orchestration, TDD enforcement, security audits, performance optimization, and production code generation across JS, TS, Python, Rust, and mobile stacks.

impeccable — 422 installs/7d, 31,379 stars. Skills only. Aimed at frontend polish with 23 commands covering design critique, visual hierarchy, accessibility, performance, animations, and design tokens, plus curated anti-pattern detection.

ui-ux-pro-max — 192 installs/7d, 79,973 stars. Skills only. Provides 50+ UI/UX styles, color palettes, font pairings, guidelines, and chart references for React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Tailwind, React Native, and Flutter.

security-guidance (anthropics-security-guidance-plugins-security-guidance-2) — 171 installs/7d, 19,650 stars. Hooks only. Runs a Python security check before any write or edit tool call is allowed, blocking edits that contain command injection, XSS, or other unsafe patterns.

andrej-karpathy-skills (forrestchang-andrej-karpathy-skills) — 124 installs/7d, 149,256 stars. Skills only. Encodes behavioral guidelines for simplicity, surgical changes, assumption surfacing, and verifiable success criteria — aimed at reducing common LLM coding mistakes.

frontend-design (anthropics-frontend-design-plugins-frontend-design-2) — 112 installs/7d, 20,139 stars. Skills only. Generates frontend UIs — components, pages, or whole apps — with distinctive typography, motion, and layouts, supporting HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Vue.

How They Differ

The eight share a "newly published" label but split cleanly into three workflow categories.

Workflow enforcement (3 plugins). superpowers, everything-claude-code, and andrej-karpathy-skills all try to make Claude behave more rigorously — TDD checkpoints, multi-agent orchestration, or explicit behavioral guidelines. superpowers leans hardest into workflow mechanics (worktrees, verification gates). ecc is the kitchen-sink answer at 300+ components. andrej-karpathy-skills is the lightest of the three: pure behavioral nudges shipped as skills, no workflow shift.

Frontend craft (3 plugins). impeccable, ui-ux-pro-max, and frontend-design all target UI work but at different layers. impeccable is critique-and-polish — it assumes you already have UI and want it better, with 23 commands for design critique and anti-pattern detection. ui-ux-pro-max is reference material — 50+ styles, palettes, and pairings across seven UI frameworks. frontend-design is generation — produce a distinctive UI from scratch.

Cost and safety (2 plugins). caveman cuts token usage by compressing conversations and delegating to compressed subagents, claiming ~75% savings. security-guidance blocks risky writes via a pre-write hook. Both add operational guardrails rather than expand capability.

Component composition is informative. Only ecc ships an MCP server. Only superpowers, caveman, ecc, and security-guidance ship hooks. The four frontend-and-behavioral plugins are skills-only. Given that the directory indexes 7,493 hooks against 206,725 skills, hook-shipping plugins remain a minority of the ecosystem, and the four entries here that ship them are doing something the median plugin doesn't.

Choosing One

A few decision shortcuts:

• You want fewer Claude mistakes in edits and code review. Start with superpowers if you're willing to adopt a structured TDD workflow with worktrees and verification gates, or andrej-karpathy-skills if you want lightweight behavioral guidance without changing how you work.
• You want lower token bills. caveman is the only entry in this batch with a stated compression model, and 866 installs in 7 days suggests other developers think the tradeoff is worth trying.
• You want a pre-write security gate. security-guidance is the only hook-only entry in this batch, and the hook fires before writes — the right place to catch injection patterns rather than after the fact.
• You want UI quality. The three frontend plugins are skills-only and layer cleanly: impeccable for critique, ui-ux-pro-max for reference, frontend-design for generation. They're not mutually exclusive.
• You want everything in one bundle. ecc is the bundle play with 300+ components across every category. The tradeoff is larger surface area and likely overlap with whatever else you already have installed.

A caveat on the numbers: install counts here are 7-day figures and the plugins are recently published, so adoption signals are still early. Star counts reflect the source GitHub repositories — for example, 214,245 stars on superpowers comes from the upstream repo, not directory traction.

Wrap-up

Of 2,155 plugins published in the past week, these eight stand out on 7-day install counts and on having an enriched summary that explains what they actually do. The pattern is unsurprising: workflow rigor, frontend craft, and operational controls (cost, safety) are the three areas where developers seem willing to install something new this week.

For the full new-plugin feed sorted by recency, browse /plugins?sort=newest. The full directory of 35,071 plugins is at /plugins.