Managing Installed Plugins

This guide covers explicit skill invocation and how skills hand off between each other. For versioning and update commands, see Plugin Versioning.

Explicit Invocation

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When automatic triggering is not reliable or when you want to force a specific skill, use explicit invocation with a slash command:

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/vault:query

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/vault-administrator:mdl

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/vault-developer:java-sdk

Explicit invocation bypasses description matching entirely.

Skill Handoffs

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Skills are intentionally scoped. When your request crosses a skill boundary, the active skill hands off to the skill that owns the next task rather than handling it itself. For example:

• The query skill does not handle authentication. It hands off to login.
• The java-sdk skill does not handle MDL authoring. It hands off to mdl.
• The mdl skill does not handle bulk data loads. It hands off to api.

If the required skill is not installed, Claude names the plugin that contains it and offers the drafted output rather than attempting to run the operation.