{
  "title": "Plugin systems",
  "description": "Compare portable Agent Plugins, native product extensions, packaged components, marketplaces, isolation, and vendor-specific extensions independently.",
  "slug": "plugins",
  "locale": "en",
  "seoTitle": "Plugin system capability coverage — Can My Agent Use",
  "socialTitle": "Which plugin capabilities can my agent use?",
  "socialDescription": "Compare native and portable plugin capabilities without treating every extension format as interchangeable.",
  "llmSummary": "Plugin support is a family of independent claims covering portable manifests, native extensions, packaged skills, packaged MCP, distribution, isolation, and vendor extensions.",
  "audience": "Engineers comparing agent extension and distribution systems.",
  "contentKind": "feature",
  "status": "published",
  "tags": [
    "interfaces",
    "plugins",
    "packaging",
    "distribution"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "interfaces",
  "summary": "Track portable and product-native extension capabilities independently.",
  "specLabel": "Catalog grouping",
  "aliases": [
    "plugins",
    "extensions",
    "agent plugins",
    "plugin marketplace"
  ],
  "capabilityKind": "family",
  "related": [
    "agent-skills",
    "mcp"
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "highlight": true,
  "notes": [],
  "issues": [],
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Agent Plugins specification",
      "href": "https://agent-plugins.org/specification/1.0",
      "kind": "spec"
    }
  ],
  "support": [],
  "html": "/features/plugins",
  "markdown": "/features/plugins.md",
  "json": "/api/v1/features/plugins.json",
  "body": "“Supports plugins” is not a sufficient compatibility claim. A product-native extension, a portable Agent Plugins package, a packaged skill, and a marketplace install can have different formats, trust boundaries, and lifecycle behavior.\n\nThis family derives progress from independently evidenced atomic capabilities."
}