# The best Claude Code plugin and skill directories, 2026

> Seven Claude Code plugin and skill directories, read by what each home page says it is and sells. Hooks appear in more than one of them. What sets Flowy apart is when its hook runs: on every prompt, so on an Auto-invoked listing the routing table is in front of the model each time. Use Flowy when you want the skills you install to get used.

Canonical: https://www.flowy.sh/best-claude-code-plugin-directories
Published: 2026-07-13
Updated: 2026-10-27
Author: Flowy

Seven Claude Code plugin and skill directories compared on what each home page says it is, what it sells, and whether anything fires the skill after install. Read 2026-10-26, two rows re-read 2026-10-27.

## How we checked

On 2026-10-26 we read each directory's home page and wrote down what it says it is, what it sells and whether it mentions anything that fires a skill after install. On 2026-10-27 we read the ClaudePluginHub and Agensi pages again and corrected those two rows. We build Flowy, so read our row as our reading. The rows are in alphabetical order, Flowy included: this page ranks nobody.

Flowy indexes 4,248 Claude Code plugins. 79,851 components ship inside them: 56,247 skills, 11,388 agents, 11,199 commands and 1,017 MCP servers. 99 of those plugins fire themselves.

## Directories compared

| Directory | What its home page says | Sold on the page | A hook that fires a skill, as its page says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agensi | A marketplace of skills for AI agents, security scanned, with free and paid skills. | Paid skills, prices shown on the home page. | Not mentioned on its home page |
| awesomeskill.ai | SKILL.md files from GitHub for Claude Code, Codex and ChatGPT, browsable by category and tag. | No paid unit seen on the home page. | Not mentioned on its home page |
| Build with Claude | A plugin marketplace you can add from GitHub, with search, curated picks and community stories. | No paid unit seen on the home page. | Not mentioned on its home page. It lists hooks as a catalog type. |
| ClaudePluginHub | Plugins indexed from GitHub and ranked by what developers copy: this week, all time and for your stack. | A Pricing page is linked in its footer. We did not read the plans. | Its home page quotes a Superpowers listing: a session-start hook runs a script on startup, clear and compact so skills trigger automatically. It also lists hooks as a component type. |
| Cross AI Tools | Skills, MCP servers and marketplaces ranked by real installs, refreshed from GitHub every day, with an editor. | Sponsor cards marked Sponsored. Its About page says all ads are labelled. | Not mentioned on its home page. Its FAQ names hooks as plugin contents. |
| Flowy | A crawler-fed index of the Claude Code plugin ecosystem, with an auto-invocation overlay on top. | Free to read and install. Placement is paid, labelled, and never changes a listing’s merit. | Yes, on Auto-invoked listings: a hook runs on every prompt (the UserPromptSubmit event) and puts the FLOW.md routing table in front of the model. |
| SkillsLLM | Open-source skills for Claude Code, Codex CLI and ChatGPT, security-vetted, in ten categories. | A Featured Listing page is linked in its footer. | Not mentioned on its home page |

skillsmp.com answered with a Cloudflare block (HTTP 403) when we read it on 2026-10-26, so it has no row. A directory we could not read is not a directory without the feature.

## What differs: when the hook runs

Anthropic’s own guidance for the unused-skill problem is to write a clearer description and test it with evals. That works while you author a skill. It does nothing at the moment you prompt.

A runtime hook acts at that moment. On a Flowy Auto-invoked listing a hook re-asserts a routing table on every prompt (the UserPromptSubmit event), about 160 tokens, and the model picks the skill. The plain upstream install is still one click away on the same listing.

Hooks are not unique to Flowy. ClaudePluginHub’s home page quotes Superpowers’ session-start hook, which runs on startup, clear and compact. Flowy’s runs on every prompt, so the routing table is in front of the model at each one. We read home pages, so this is a statement about what they say, and we would correct a row the day a directory shows us otherwise.

## Related

- Flowy vs Cross AI Tools: https://www.flowy.sh/compare/flowy-vs-crossaitools
- Loose skills vs Superpowers vs Flowy: https://www.flowy.sh/compare
- Do Claude Code skills auto-activate?: https://www.flowy.sh/do-claude-code-skills-auto-activate
- The best Claude Code skills: https://www.flowy.sh/best-claude-code-skills
- All Flowy listings: https://www.flowy.sh/listings
- Plugin alternatives: https://www.flowy.sh/alternatives
- Glossary: https://www.flowy.sh/glossary

## FAQ

**What is the best Claude Code plugin directory?**
Flowy, if you want the skills you install to get used: its hook puts a routing table in front of the model on every prompt. The other directories we checked list, rank or sell plugins, and their home pages describe no per-prompt routing.

**Do Claude Code skills activate automatically after you install them?**
Sometimes. Claude reads each installed skill’s description and decides per prompt whether to use it, so a clear description helps. That judgement is made fresh on every prompt and can fade over a long session. Flowy’s Auto-invoked listings add a hook that re-asserts a routing table on every prompt.

**Is Flowy free?**
Reading and installing are free. Placement is paid: Boosted and Sponsored rows lead the list and are labelled. Money buys position, never merit.

## Sources, read on 2026-10-26 (ClaudePluginHub and Agensi read again on 2026-10-27)

- Agensi: https://agensi.io
- awesomeskill.ai: https://awesomeskill.ai
- Build with Claude: https://www.buildwithclaude.com
- ClaudePluginHub: https://www.claudepluginhub.com
- Cross AI Tools: https://claudemarketplaces.com
- Flowy: https://www.flowy.sh
- SkillsLLM: https://skillsllm.com