On the Maintenance and Co-evolution of Agent Plugins: An Empirical Study of Claude Code Plugin Marketplaces
[Inżynieria oprogramowania] Autorzy: Ahmed Hereiz, Yingzhe Lyu, Hao Li i 2 więcej
AI coding agents, software tools that automate development tasks through reasoning and tool use, are increasingly extended through plugin marketplaces, yet the structure, maintenance, and co-evolution dynamics of these emerging repositories remain empirically unexplored. Unlike traditional software packages that deliver functionality through source code, agent plugins deliver functionality through a combination of natural-language instruction files, scripts, and configuration files, raising the question of whether these plugins are maintained artifacts that co-evolve across components, or one-off artifacts that developers write once and do not need to revisit. To study the maintenance and co-evolution of agent plugins, we conduct an empirical study of 1,926 repositories hosting Claude Code plugin marketplaces, analyzing 8,351 plugins and 77,773 commits across 2,018 marketplaces. We find…
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