How We Know What Works

What makes a skill actually work — patterns from 1,500+ real skills

• Allowed-Tools Surface Area Analysis Which tool permissions matter and which are just noise
• Frontmatter Impact on Activation Rates How description phrasing affects whether Claude picks your skill Coming Soon
• Progressive Disclosure Architecture How top-scoring skills structure their instructions Coming Soon
• Trigger Phrase Engineering The difference between skills that activate and skills that sit there Coming Soon

Structural patterns across 270+ plugins and 23 categories

• Plugin Composition Patterns Single-skill, multi-skill, and hybrid — what works when
• SaaS Pack Architecture How supabase-pack and vercel-pack achieve coherent developer experience Coming Soon
• MCP Server Plugin Lifecycle Build, distribution, and execution — the full picture Coming Soon
• Plugin.json Schema Economics Why the 8-field constraint exists and what it prevents Coming Soon

How agents, skills, and commands work together at runtime

• Agent-Skill-Command Interaction Model The three content types and how they coordinate
• Orchestrator-Worker Patterns Hierarchical delegation with real latency and cost data Coming Soon
• Cross-Plugin Dependency Resolution What happens when two plugins want to handle the same task Coming Soon
• Sequential vs Parallel Skill Execution Token consumption curves and when parallelism actually helps Coming Soon

Permission boundaries, trust models, and what keeps plugins safe

• Tool Permission Threat Modeling What Bash access really means and how constraints protect you
• Secret Scanning Pipeline Analysis Detection rates by secret type — what gets caught and what slips through Coming Soon
• Plugin Integrity Verification From submission to installation — the validation chain Coming Soon
• Graduated Trust Architecture Community, verified, and official — how trust levels work Coming Soon

Token economics, model selection, and getting more done for less

• Model Tiering Strategy When to use sonnet, haiku, or opus — with real cost comparisons
• Token Budget by Category Which plugin categories are efficient and which ones burn through tokens Coming Soon
• SKILL.md Size vs Performance The diminishing-returns curve and why bigger is not always better Coming Soon
• Batch vs Interactive Execution Costs CI/CD pipelines vs developer sessions — the cost difference Coming Soon

How teams actually adopt and operate plugins at scale

• CI/CD Integration Patterns Validation gates, pre-commit hooks, and automated quality checks
• Enterprise Plugin Adoption Curve The path from one developer to organization-wide deployment Coming Soon
• Plugin Ecosystem Health Metrics Install rates, activation frequency, and what healthy looks like Coming Soon
• Cowork Distribution Architecture Zip-based distribution, manifests, and checksums Coming Soon