Plugins & Marketplace

Plugins are extension packages for Kodik. They can add skills, slash commands, agent rules, lifecycle hooks, sub-agent profiles, and MCP servers. You discover and install plugins through the built-in Marketplace.

Opening the Marketplace

Open the Marketplace with the kodik.openMarketplace command from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P → “Kodik: Open Marketplace”). From there you can search for plugins, read descriptions, and install with a single click.

What plugins can contribute

A plugin can include any combination of the following:

Component	Description	Learn more
Skills	Specialized workflows and competencies for the agent	Skills
Slash commands	Custom commands invoked with `/` in the chat	Slash commands
Rules	Rules files that govern agent behavior in a project	Rules
Hooks	Shell commands tied to agent lifecycle events	Hooks
Sub-agent profiles	Definitions for specialized sub-agents	Sub-agents
MCP servers	Additional tools and resources via the MCP protocol	MCP

Namespacing

All components contributed by plugins are automatically namespaced by plugin ID:

A skill named my-workflow from plugin acme appears as acme:my-workflow.
A command named deploy from plugin acme is invoked as /acme:deploy (the bare /deploy also works).

This allows multiple plugins to contribute components with the same short name without conflict.

Enabling and disabling plugins

After installation a plugin is enabled by default. You can disable it from the plugin settings in the Marketplace or from Kodik’s settings panel. A disabled plugin contributes nothing to the agent session until it is re-enabled.

Plugin layout on disk

Installed plugins live in Kodik’s global plugins directory. Each plugin occupies its own subdirectory with a .kodik-plugin/plugin.json manifest. Components follow a standard subdirectory layout:

<plugin-id>/
  .kodik-plugin/
    plugin.json          # plugin manifest
  .mcp.json              # MCP server configurations
  skills/<skill-dir>/    # skills (one directory each)
  commands/<cmd>.md      # slash commands
  rules/<rule>.md        # rules
  agents/<agent>.md      # sub-agent profiles
  hooks/hooks.json       # hooks

Skills — creating and using skills
Hooks — lifecycle hooks
MCP — MCP protocol and servers
Sub-agents — specialized sub-agents