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5 Things I Check Before Installing Any Claude Code Plugin

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Claude Code plugins are great. One command and you get new skills, slash commands, hooks and MCP servers. But a plugin isn't a prompt. It's a program that runs on your machine. Security researchers at PromptArmor showed how a plugin's hook can run before Claude's tools, auto-approve a curl command…

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Timeline · 4 reports

  1. 2026-11-06 00:17 · DEV Community — AI
    What a Claude Code plugin runs before you type: we read 2,688 public plugins
  2. 2026-11-05 19:01 · DEV Community — AI
    We read 891 public Claude Code mods before installing any. Here is what they can do
  3. 2026-11-05 03:52 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Postman, Claude Code, and the Plugin You Never Installed
  4. 2026-11-03 19:15 · DEV Community — AI
    5 Things I Check Before Installing Any Claude Code Plugin

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