Claude Code Plugin Marketplace

Marketplace manifest (.claude-plugin/marketplace.json) listing Claude Code plugins

**/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

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Reference

Fields

Generated directly from the schema, following local $refs, to two levels of nesting.

Field	Type	Description
`$schema`	`string`	JSON Schema reference for editor autocomplete/validation; ignored at load time
`name`required	`string`	—
`version`	`string`	Marketplace manifest version
`description`	`string`	Human-readable description of this marketplace
`owner`required	`object`	Marketplace maintainer or curator information
`owner.name`required	`string`	Display name of the plugin author or organization
`owner.email`	`string`	Contact email for support or feedback
`owner.url`	`string`	Website, GitHub profile, or organization URL
`plugins`required	`array<object>`	Collection of available plugins in this marketplace
`forceRemoveDeletedPlugins`	`boolean`	When true, plugins removed from this marketplace will be automatically uninstalled and flagged for users
`metadata`	`object`	Optional marketplace metadata
`metadata.pluginRoot`	`string`	Base path for relative plugin sources
`metadata.version`	`string`	Marketplace version
`metadata.description`	`string`	Marketplace description
`allowCrossMarketplaceDependenciesOn`	`array<string>`	Marketplace names whose plugins may be auto-installed as dependencies. Only the root marketplace's allowlist applies — no transitive trust.

Audit

What we found in this schema

Declared draft: draft-07
Validates cleanly against its own meta-schema.
256 properties, 72% carrying a description, max nesting depth 21.

Standards

Specification sections for the keywords in this schema

Keyword	Document	Section
`$schema`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§8.1.1 — "$schema"
`additionalProperties`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.2.3 — "additionalProperties"
`allOf`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.2.1.1 — "allOf"
`anyOf`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.2.1.2 — "anyOf"
`const`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.1.3 — "const"
`default`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§9.2 — "default"
`description`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§9.1 — "title" and "description"
`enum`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.1.2 — "enum"
`exclusiveMinimum`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.2.5 — "exclusiveMinimum"
`format`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§7 — Vocabularies for Semantic Content With "format"
`if`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.2.2.1 — "if"
`items`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.1.2 — "items"
`maximum`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.2.2 — "maximum"
`minLength`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.3.2 — "minLength"
`pattern`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.3.3 — "pattern"
`properties`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.2.1 — "properties"
`propertyNames`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.2.4 — "propertyNames"
`required`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.5.3 — "required"
`type`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.1.1 — "type"
`format: "uri"`	RFC 3986 (STD 66)	§3 — Syntax Components

Documents

JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12 — JSON Schema: A Media Type for Describing JSON Documents, A. Wright, H. Andrews, B. Hutton, G. Dennis, Eds., 2022. draft-bhutton-json-schema-01. An expired Internet-Draft with no formal standing in the IETF standards process; it is nonetheless the specification of record for JSON Schema 2020-12, published by json-schema.org.
JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12 — JSON Schema Validation: A Vocabulary for Structural Validation of JSON, A. Wright, H. Andrews, B. Hutton, Eds., 2022.
RFC 8259 (STD 90) — The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format, T. Bray, Ed., 2017. The format a schema describes.
RFC 6901 — JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Pointer. Defines the pointer syntax used by $ref fragments and the ~0 / ~1 escapes.

Source

Attribution

This schema comes from SchemaStore, distributed under the Apache License 2.0. Copyright 2015–present Mads Kristensen and contributors. View the original file. The field table and audit on this page are generated by JSONTools.tools; the schema itself is unmodified.

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