Developer recounts pitfalls of submitting a plugin to Anthropic's directory

A developer who maintains an open-source Claude Code plugin has written up what he went through to get it into Anthropic's plugin directory. The plugin provides marketing agents for B2B SaaS, along with a mod that adds a live pane to Claude Code. He submitted it to Anthropic's plugin directory on Oct 8, and for roughly a week afterward every version was refused before it was even scanned. On Nov 3 the submission finally passed the security scan and moved on to a human reviewer.

Based on what happened to his submission, he lays out the order in which he would check things before submitting: run the Validate step in the developer portal as a self-check first, then review the items the directory is known to scrutinize, such as the README, the license, package name availability, and what the plugin's hooks actually run. He notes that each check either came up in his own submission or is drawn from Anthropic's documentation, which he links to. The account currently ends at the point where the submission had reached human review; he does not report how that review turned out.