Build with Claude is an open-source plugin marketplace and discovery platform that gathers Claude Skills, Agents, Commands, Hooks, Plugins, and Marketplace collections into a single searchable hub for people extending Claude Code, Claude Desktop, the Agent SDK, and OpenClaw.

What it is

Build with Claude is a Python repository, licensed under MIT, that functions both as a Claude Code plugin marketplace and as a discovery platform with a web interface at buildwithclaude.com. It maintains curated in-repository collections across five types: 117 Agents, 175 Commands, 28 Hooks, 26 Skills, and 51 Plugins. Beyond those curated collections, the platform indexes the wider ecosystem, covering more than 20,000 community plugins from external marketplaces, more than 4,500 MCP servers for database, API, and tool connections, and more than 1,100 community plugin marketplaces. The project lives squarely in the Claude Code ecosystem and carries topics including mcp, mcp-server, subagents, plugin-marketplace, and claude-skills.

The problem it solves is discovery and installation. Without such a hub, a user looking for a Python specialist agent, a version-control slash command, or a notification hook has to locate the relevant repository and wire it up by hand. Build with Claude replaces that manual scavenging with a registered marketplace that can be added once and then queried by name using Claude Code's own plugin commands. Where the manual path is still chosen, it reduces the work to cloning the repository and copying markdown files into the local Claude configuration directories. The platform also replaces scattered, unindexed lists of community plugins and MCP servers with one browsable catalogue.

Key capabilities

• Registers as a Claude Code marketplace with /plugin marketplace add davepoon/buildwithclaude, then browses and installs through /plugin search @buildwithclaude and /plugin install @buildwithclaude.
• Ships curated bundles that can be installed wholesale using /plugin install all-agents@buildwithclaude, /plugin install all-commands@buildwithclaude, and /plugin install all-hooks@buildwithclaude.
• Supports individual installs by named package, such as agents-python-expert@buildwithclaude, commands-version-control-git@buildwithclaude, and hooks-notifications@buildwithclaude.
• Organises the 117 Agents across 11 categories, including Development and Architecture, Language Specialists, Quality and Security, Infrastructure and Operations, Data and AI, and Crypto and Blockchain.
• Organises the 175 Commands across 22 categories, including Version Control, Code Analysis, Documentation, and Project Management.
• Indexes external material at scale: more than 20,000 community plugins, more than 4,500 MCP servers, and more than 1,100 plugin marketplaces.
• Provides a web UI at buildwithclaude.com with filtering by plugin type, search across plugins, agents, commands, hooks, and skills, one-click copying of install commands, and full documentation with usage examples.
• Offers a manual installation route using git clone, find plugins/agents-*/agents -name "*.md" -exec cp {} ~/.claude/agents/ \;, and the equivalent copy for commands into ~/.claude/commands/.

Who uses it and how

• Developers extending Claude Code who add the marketplace once and then install agents, commands, and hooks by package name instead of managing files themselves.
• Teams that want a consistent baseline across machines and seed every local ~/.claude/agents/ directory at once with the all-agents bundle.
• MCP adopters browsing the indexed catalogue of more than 4,500 MCP servers to find database, API, or tool connections rather than searching GitHub.
• Users who prefer direct control over their Claude configuration, cloning the repository and copying markdown files into ~/.claude/agents/ and ~/.claude/commands/ before restarting Claude Code.
• Users working across the surfaces named in the tagline, including Claude Code, Claude Desktop, the Agent SDK, and OpenClaw, who need one place to find compatible extensions.

Getting started

The recommended path is Claude Code's plugin marketplace: run /plugin marketplace add davepoon/buildwithclaude, then /plugin search @buildwithclaude or /plugin install @buildwithclaude. A manual alternative is to git clone https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git and copy the agent and command markdown files into ~/.claude/agents/ and ~/.claude/commands/.

How it compares

The facts provide no list of paid products that Build with Claude replaces, and they name no directly comparable registry product. It therefore stands alone in this registry as a discovery and marketplace layer, with its nearest neighbours being the MCP server ecosystem and the community plugin marketplaces it indexes rather than competes with.

When to use it — and when not to

Choose it if you use Claude Code, Claude Desktop, the Agent SDK, or OpenClaw and want plugin discovery and installation handled through one registered marketplace. Be aware that the README excerpt is truncated mid-sentence, so the full command category list is only partly documented, and the 20,000-plus community plugins come from external marketplaces rather than from the maintainer's curated set, so quality varies by source. Anyone outside the Claude ecosystem, or anyone expecting a single bundled tool rather than a catalogue, should look elsewhere.

# Add the Build with Claude marketplace
/plugin marketplace add davepoon/buildwithclaude

# Browse available plugins
/plugin search @buildwithclaude

# Install plugins
/plugin install <plugin-name>@buildwithclaude

# Add marketplace
/plugin marketplace add davepoon/buildwithclaude

# Install specific plugins
/plugin install agents-python-expert@buildwithclaude
/plugin install commands-version-control-git@buildwithclaude
/plugin install hooks-notifications@buildwithclaude

# Or install everything
/plugin install all-agents@buildwithclaude
/plugin install all-commands@buildwithclaude
/plugin install all-hooks@buildwithclaude

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git
cd buildwithclaude

# Install agents
find plugins/agents-*/agents -name "*.md" -exec cp {} ~/.claude/agents/ \;

# Install commands
find plugins/commands-*/commands -name "*.md" -exec cp {} ~/.claude/commands/ \;

# Restart Claude Code

"Use the python-pro to optimize this function"
"@agent-security-auditor review this authentication code"
"Have the devops-troubleshooter help debug this deployment"

/commit                    # Create conventional commit
/create-pr                 # Create pull request
/docs                      # Generate documentation
/tdd                       # Start test-driven development
/code_analysis             # Analyze code quality

---
name: agent-name
description: When to invoke this agent
category: category-name
tools: Read, Write, Bash
---

You are a [role description]...

---
description: What this command does
category: category-name
argument-hint: <args>
---

Command implementation...

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hooks: PreToolUse, PostToolUse
description: What this hook does
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Hook implementation...