plugin-settings

This skill should be used when the user asks about "plugin settings", "store plugin configuration", "user-configurable plugin", ".local.md files", "plugin state files", "read YAML frontmatter", "per-project plugin settings", or wants to make plugin behavior configurable. Documents the .claude/plugin-name.local.md pattern for storing plugin-specific configuration with YAML frontmatter and markdown content.

1.84x

Quality

70%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

94%

1.84x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

Securityby

Passed

No known issues

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Evaluation results

100%

53%

Pre-Tool-Use Validation Hook for a Security Plugin

Settings-driven hook activation and frontmatter parsing

Criteria

Without context

With context

Correct settings file path

100%

No absolute paths

100%

Quick-exit on missing file

100%

sed frontmatter extraction

100%

grep+sed field extraction

100%

Quote stripping

100%

Enabled flag check

100%

Body extraction with awk

100%

Gitignore entry

50%

100%

Restart requirement documented

100%

Numeric field validation

100%

92%

56%

Plugin Setup Script for Per-Project Configuration

Settings file creation, sanitization, gitignore, and restart reminder

Criteria

Without context

With context

Correct file location

100%

.local.md suffix

100%

YAML frontmatter structure

100%

Markdown body

100%

Input sanitization

100%

Gitignore entry

40%

100%

File permissions

100%

Restart reminder

100%

Enabled field included

100%

Default values documented

25%

Relative path in script

100%

92%

22%

Iterative Loop Control Stop Hook

Atomic settings updates, body-as-prompt extraction, and safe JSON output

Criteria

Without context

With context

Quick-exit on missing file

100%

sed frontmatter extraction

100%

awk body extraction

100%

Atomic update with temp file

100%

No sed -i usage

100%

Numeric field validation

37%

100%

jq -n --arg for JSON output

100%

Enabled flag respected

Correct state file naming

50%

100%

Init script creates .local.md

50%

100%

Repository: anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Commit: 48aa435

Evaluated: about 1 month ago
Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Table of Contents

Pre-Tool-Use Validation Hook for a Security Plugin Plugin Setup Script for Per-Project Configuration Iterative Loop Control Stop Hook

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