Claude Code plugins run trusted code on your machine: their skills, hooks, and scripts execute with your user privileges. This document inventories exactly what the plugins in this marketplace read, write, download, and execute, so you can decide whether to trust them. The heaviest actor is the bootstrap plugin, which provisions dependencies for every other plugin.
~/.claude/plugins/data/<marketplace>/<plugin>/-- per-plugin state: Python virtualenvs (.venv/), bootstrap logs (bootstrap.log), config files, run-throttle stamps, and cooldown markers. This is the only tree bootstrap writes plugin data into.~/.local/bin/-- bootstrap-managed tool binaries (e.g.jq,gh) and thebootstrap-reset-cooldownhelper.~/.local/share/python-standalone/-- a standalone CPython runtime, used when no suitable Python is already installed.
Bootstrap-installed tools must be discoverable from any shell, not just the one that ran the session. To achieve that persistently:
- Windows: appends
~/.local/binand the standalone-Python directory to the UserPathin the registry, via PowerShellSetEnvironmentVariable(User scope, never Machine/system). No admin rights, no system-wide change. - macOS / Linux: adds the same entries to your shell rc files
(
~/.bashrc, and~/.zshrcon macOS) using managed, clearly-marked blocks.
All downloads are over HTTPS from official upstream release pages:
jq-- from the jqlang GitHub releases, pinned version, sha256-verified against a hash pinned in the manifest.gh(GitHub CLI, used by git-kit) -- from thecli/cliGitHub releases, pinned version, sha256-verified against a pinned hash.- Standalone CPython -- from the indygreg
python-build-standaloneGitHub releases, pinned version, sha256-verified against a hash pinned per platform. A checksum mismatch discards the download and aborts the install; it is never extracted. uv-- installed by piping Astral's official installer (https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh) to a shell. Integrity is handled by that installer; bootstrap does not add its own hash check for uv.
- llm-scripting-kit -- only when you configure an API key: for an
OpenRouter endpoint it validates the key against
GET /auth/keyatopenrouter.ai(other endpoints use aGET /modelsprobe, or skip whenaccount_check: none) and caches a hash of the validation result locally. No key configured means no network call.
Other plugins (git-kit, p4-kit, etc.) invoke tools you already use (git,
gh, p4) against endpoints you have configured; they add no telemetry of
their own.
- No telemetry. Nothing reports usage, timing, or contents anywhere.
- No exfiltration. No project data, source, or credentials leave your machine. Network use is limited to the release downloads and the optional OpenRouter key validation above.
- No writes outside the listed locations. Bootstrap does not modify system
directories, other users' files, or arbitrary project paths; plugin state is
confined to
~/.claude/plugins/data/,~/.local/bin, and~/.local/share/python-standalone. - No elevation without asking. It does not silently run as root/admin; when a step genuinely needs your action, it asks.
Please open an issue at https://github.com/kitaekatt/plugins-kit/issues. Include the plugin, version, and steps to reproduce. For a sensitive report, note that in the issue and we will arrange a private channel.