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Sven Scharmentke d3ddd90588 feat(plugin): name the marketplace entry by how it ships (#97)
Installing becomes:

```
/plugin marketplace add svnscha/mcp-windbg
/plugin install mcp-windbg-uvx@mcp-windbg
```

This frees the plain `mcp-windbg` name for a self-contained build and
makes room for `mcp-windbg-pipx` beside it. Doing it **before** 1.2.0
rather than after means there is no rename migration to run: the old
name was never published.

## The syntax is plugin@marketplace, not the reverse

Worth stating since it drove the shape here. `claude plugin install
--help`:

> use plugin@marketplace for specific marketplace

So `mcp-windbg@uvx` would mean "plugin `mcp-windbg` from a marketplace
called `uvx`" and would need three separate marketplaces. The variant
has to live in the plugin name, which is what this does.

## The two names do different jobs

`plugin.json`s `name` deliberately stays `mcp-windbg`. I verified the
split by installing a plugin whose two names differed on purpose:

| Name | Governs | Observed |
| :--- | :------ | :------- |
| marketplace entry | install identity, plugin cache directory |
`cache/probe-mp/mcp-windbg-uvx/` |
| `plugin.json` `name` | skill and MCP tool scoping |
`plugin:mcp-windbg:mcp-windbg` |

and a headless session confirmed the skills:

```
/mcp-windbg:analyze-dump
/mcp-windbg:debug-remote
/mcp-windbg:kernel-debug
/mcp-windbg:windbg-doctor
```

That is the good outcome. Every future variant keeps **identical skill
names, identical tool names and one set of documentation** - only the
install command differs. Renaming `plugin.json` instead would have
renamed every skill and every tool with it, and split the docs three
ways.

The distinction is recorded in CLAUDE.md, because nothing about the two
fields makes it obvious.

## Also verified

Installed from the real marketplace under the new name:

```
Source: mcp-windbg-uvx@mcp-windbg
Skills (4)  analyze-dump, debug-remote, kernel-debug, windbg-doctor
Agents (1)  crash-analyst
MCP servers (1)  mcp-windbg
```

`claude plugin validate` passes, docs typography clean, and every
occurrence of the old install command across the README, plugin README,
getting-started, clients, plugin reference and CHANGELOG is updated.
Test state removed afterwards.

## Note on sequencing

The open release PR (#91) predates this, so its 1.2.0 CHANGELOG entry
still shows the old command. Once this merges I will delete the release
branch and let release-please rebuild it, which is the documented way to
refresh a release PR - `sync-lockfile` now re-does the lockfile commit
on its own.
2026-08-27 22:09:51 +02:00
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