The best Claude plugins and skills in 2026: 16 worth installing (and how to stay safe)
Plugins vs skills vs connectors, where to install them, the 16 worth having for work, coding and design, and how to install them safely.
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Intro
Out of the box, Claude is a very good generalist. Plugins and skills turn it into a specialist. There are over five hundred now, so here are the sixteen most worth installing, and how to stay safe.
Plugins vs skills vs connectors
First, the difference. A skill teaches Claude how to do a task. A connector gives it access to an app. And a plugin bundles skills, connectors and commands into one install.
Where to get them
In the Claude app, go to Customize, then Plugins or Skills. In Claude Code, type slash plugin. Plugins need a paid plan, from twenty dollars a month for Pro.
Anthropic's own
Anthropic's own are a great start. Document skills build real Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Skill Creator helps you make your own. And Frontend Design is the most installed plugin of all, with over a million installs.
For coding
For coding, Code Review runs five review agents on a pull request. Security Guidance warns about vulnerabilities before Claude writes a file. And Feature Dev walks through a whole feature, step by step.
Role plugins
For your job, Anthropic's free role plugins add commands for marketing, sales, finance, legal and more. There's also a financial services pack for building models.
Slack, Notion, GitHub and more
Then the partner plugins, made by the apps themselves. Slack summarises channels. Atlassian turns specs into Jira tickets. Notion captures meeting notes. And GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and Figma cover the developer stack.
Creative and community
For creative work, Canva's plugin resizes designs and checks your brand kit. And from the community, Superpowers teaches Claude to plan, test and debug properly. It has about a million installs.
Stay safe
One warning. A Claude Code plugin can run code on your computer. Plugins in Anthropic's directory are reviewed, but third-party ones aren't. Read a skill before you turn it on, and switch off what you don't use.
All sixteen picks, with how to make your own skill, are on geekygoo dot com. The link's in the description.