5 Claude Code Plugins You Should Install First

Plugins are the fastest way to give Claude Code instant superpowers. Official marketplace, community marketplaces, ready-to-use tools from the whole ecosystem. In this episode I show you how to find, install and manage plugins, plus my curated starter pack of 5 that every Claude Code user should have. This is NOT about building plugins (that's a separate episode). It's about getting value from what's already out there, today. 🚀 What you'll learn • How the plugin system actually works (slash commands, skills, agents, hooks, MCP) • 3 ways to discover plugins (official, community, GitHub repos) • Installing safely (interactive vs direct, and the trust model) • Managing, updating and auto-updating your plugins • Team workflows and enterprise restrictions ⭐ My Starter Pack: 5 plugins every developer should have 1. Superpowers, the development methodology (brainstorm to verify) 2. Frontend Design, production-grade UI instead of generic scaffolds 3. Commit Commands, git workflow automation 4. Plugin Dev, the toolkit for building your own 5. Document Skills, create PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 Your Claude Code is missing something 01:26 How plugins work (architecture) 02:35 Finding plugins: 3 discovery methods 04:40 Installing plugins (interactive + direct) 05:21 Managing plugins (update, disable, remove) 06:25 Starter Pack - My Top 5 09:06 Playground Plugin 09:54 Team workflows & enterprise 10:49 Pro tips 14:43 Key takeaways 📋 The commands (copy-paste these) Open the plugin UI: /plugin Add the community marketplace: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code Install the starter pack: /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official /plugin install frontend-design@claude-plugins-official /plugin install commit-commands@claude-plugins-official /plugin install plugin-dev@claude-plugins-official (Document skills: grab them from the Discover tab) 🔗 Links • Claude Code: https://claude.com/claude-code • Community marketpl