plugin-manifest-referencelisted

# Skill: /plugin-manifest-reference The answers to the packaging questions that keep getting re-researched from scratch — separated into what is verified against working manifests and what is still open. **Don't:** answer from memory about plugin schema; the field set here is what is *observed working*, and anything past it needs the live docs. **Don't** present the open question in §Open as settled — five sessions across three repos have asked it and none produced a citable answer. **Don't** assume a plugin's CLAUDE.md loads. ## Verified: `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` Observed across 11 shipping plugins (`slogsdon-claude-code-config` ×7, `loop-and-gate-*` ×4): ```json { "name": "skills-vault-knowledge", "version": "0.3.0", "description": "One line. Shown in plugin listings and the marketplace card.", "author": { "name": "Shane Logsdon", "email": "shane@shanelogsdon.com" }, "license": "MIT" } ``` `name`, `version`, `description` are load-bearing. `author.email` is optional — present in `loop-and-gate-foundation`, absent from the rest, both install fine. No shipping manifest here declares anything else. ## Verified: `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` ```json { "name": "slogsdon-claude-code-config", "owner": { "name": "Shane Logsdon", "email": "shane@shanelogsdon.com" }, "metadata": { "description": "Marketplace-level blurb" }, "plugins": [ { "name": "skills-design", "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "slogsdon/skills-design" },