coding-best-practices

xdg-claude

Community marketplace for Claude Code plugins that enhance development workflows, writing quality, and communication style.

Installation

Configure this marketplace in Claude Code by adding the GitHub repository URL to your marketplace settings directly within claude.

/marketplace add https://github.com/xdg/xdg-claude

Once added, you can browse and install individual plugins:

/plugin
/plugin install coding-best-practices@xdg-claude

List of Plugins

CLAUDE.md extensions

Inject instructions at session start as if they were in your CLAUDE.md.

Plugin	Description
coding-best-practices	Injects coding best practices from Philosophy of Software Design, The Art of Readable Code, and other tips
elements-of-style	Injects writing style guidance from The Elements of Style
pithy-communication	Injects pithy communication style guidance for high signal-to-noise ratio output

Agents

Specialized sub-agents for focused tasks.

Plugin	Model	Description
code-review	Opus	Code review agent for analyzing code quality, security, performance, and maintainability
git-commit-agent	Sonnet	Git commit agent with intelligent change analysis and commit message conventions
isolated-task-agent	inherit	Execute focused work in clean, isolated context without polluting main conversation
refactoring-agent	Sonnet/Opus	Surgical code refactoring agents for analyzing and improving code quality without changing behavior

Skills

Give Claude new skills.

Plugin	Description
context-efficient-tools	CLI tools that minimize context usage through targeted extraction instead of reading entire files (ripgrep, ast-grep, jq, yq)
jira-cli	Command-line Jira management skill using jira-cli with efficient querying and issue workflows

License

Apache 2.0 - see LICENSE file for details.

Author

David Golden ([email protected])

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Submit issues or pull requests on GitHub.