On the Maintenance and Co-evolution of Agent Plugins: An Empirical Study of Claude Code Plugin Marketplaces
AI coding agents, software tools that automate development tasks through reasoning and tool use, are increasingly extended through plugin marketplaces, yet the structure, maintenance, and co-evolution dynamics of these emerging repositories remain empirically unexplored. Unlike traditional software packages that deliver functionality through source code, agent plugins deliver functionality through a combination of natural-language instruction files, scripts, and configuration files, raising the question of whether these plugins are maintained artifacts that co-evolve across components, or one-off artifacts that developers write once and do not need to revisit. To study the maintenance and...
| Authors | Ahmed Hereiz, Yingzhe Lyu, Hao Li et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.SE |
| Published | 28 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 August 2026 |
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