Anthropic recently released plugins for Claude. I have mixed feelings about the concept.
Plugins let you bundle multiple Agent Skills into a single installable toolkit. That idea makes a lot of sense, especially in legal.
Say you're reviewing NIL contracts for student-athletes. You can now combine Samir Patel's NIL Contract Analysis with Rafał Stanisław Fryc's Statutory Interpretation to properly analyze the underlying state laws.
Expert knowledge from different domains packaged as one toolkit.
After few requests, we’ve integrated a "Build Your Own Plugin" on Lawve AI. Pick the legal skills you want, and the system packages them into a ready-to-use Claude plugin with all dependencies included automatically. Hit download, drop it into Claude Code or Cowork, and start working.
Pity that the plugin format itself isn't being standardized the way skills are. A skill you write today runs on Claude, GPT-Codex, Gemini, Mistral, and dozens of other tools without changing a single line. That interoperability is so valuable in my opinion. Let’s hope plugins get there too someday.
In the meantime, the skills underneath remain open and portable.