feat: add external-source plugins for third-party caveman/ponytail
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Lets a plugin.json declare an `external` target->source map instead of
carrying local content, so the generator emits that Claude Code
marketplace source (e.g. a GitHub repo) verbatim rather than a local
dist path. Adds caveman and ponytail as external entries, installed
straight from their upstream repos with nothing vendored or copied.
Claude Code-only for now — agy has no equivalent external-source
mechanism, and both plugins' hooks/MCP assume Claude Code's runtime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014YVWWAnvR5TDQzmfY3RXG9
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@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ from one source tree and published as a native marketplace for both tools.
- [core-essentials](#core-essentials)
- [github-mcp](#github-mcp)
- [gitea-mcp](#gitea-mcp)
- [caveman](#caveman)
- [ponytail](#ponytail)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Claude Code](#claude-code)
- [Antigravity CLI (agy)](#antigravity-cli-agy)
@@ -158,6 +160,33 @@ both, or neither independently.
---
### `caveman`
**Purpose:** Ultra-compressed communication mode — cuts output tokens while
keeping full technical accuracy.
This is a third-party plugin from
[JuliusBrussee/caveman](https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman), not
maintained in this repo. Our marketplace entry points straight at that
repo's own `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` (via `source: {"source": "github",
"repo": "JuliusBrussee/caveman"}`), so installing it through us always
fetches the current upstream version — nothing is vendored or copied.
Claude Code-only; see [Antigravity CLI (agy)](#antigravity-cli-agy) below
for why.
---
### `ponytail`
**Purpose:** Lazy senior dev mode — forces the simplest, shortest solution
that actually works (YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions).
Also third-party, from
[DietrichGebert/ponytail](https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail),
installed the same external-source way as `caveman` above. Claude Code-only.
---
## Installation
This repository is a native plugin marketplace for both tools — there is no
@@ -181,6 +210,12 @@ Run `/plugin marketplace update` to pick up newly published plugins.
### Antigravity CLI (`agy`)
Third-party plugins pulled in via `external` (see below) aren't offered
here at all — agy has no marketplace-style external-source mechanism, and
their hooks/MCP servers are built assuming Claude Code's plugin runtime
(e.g. resolving `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}`), so there'd be nothing correct to
translate even if we vendored them.
agy documents a `plugins.json` "entries" mechanism for pointing it at an
external directory of plugins, but empirically it doesn't reliably load
one as a bundle — hooks and MCP servers inside a `plugins/<name>/` folder
@@ -242,6 +277,30 @@ verbatim where the two tools' schemas diverge:
target; `commands/`/`agents/` have no agy equivalent and are skipped for
that target.
A plugin can instead declare `external` in its `plugin.json` — a
target-keyed map of Claude Code marketplace `source` objects — to point at
a third-party plugin we don't own or vendor, instead of carrying any of
the local content above:
```json
{
"name": "caveman",
"description": "...",
"targets": ["claude-code"],
"external": {
"claude-code": { "source": "github", "repo": "owner/repo" }
}
}
```
The generator emits that `source` object verbatim into
`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` instead of a local `./dist/...` path, so
`/plugin install` fetches the plugin's real content straight from upstream
at install time — it's never copied into this repo and never goes stale.
A plugin with `external` must not also carry local skills/hooks/mcp/rules/
commands/agents, and today only the `claude-code` target supports it (see
[caveman](#caveman) and [ponytail](#ponytail) above).
### Restricting a Plugin (or a Skill) to Specific Targets
Some content only makes sense for one tool — `delegate-agy` (Claude Code