watch-marketplace

name	watch-marketplace
description	Poll the Anthropic plugin marketplace manifest until "channelhub" appears, then notify the user. Use when waiting for the security review to land — the submission portal shows "Published" before the public manifest is updated.

Watch the official marketplace for channelhub

The plugin submission shows "Published" in the Anthropic submissions portal, but the install command keeps failing because Anthropic must add channelhub to the public manifest at anthropics/claude-plugins-official/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json.

This skill is the polling loop that catches the moment that lands.

Run

The user invokes:

/loop 30m channelhub:watch-marketplace

(/loop is the built-in superpowers skill. 30m is plenty — manifest deploys are infrequent.)

What this skill does each tick

gh api repos/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/contents/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json --jq '.content' \
  | base64 -d \
  | python3 -c "
import json, sys, datetime
m = json.load(sys.stdin)
plugins = m.get('plugins', [])
hit = next((p for p in plugins if p.get('name') == 'channelhub'), None)
print('CHECKED', datetime.datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
      'plugins:', len(plugins), 'channelhub:', 'YES' if hit else 'NO')
if hit: print(json.dumps(hit, indent=2))
"

Branch on the result:

• Plugin not yet listed — print one line: still waiting (N plugins, no channelhub yet). Reschedule.
• Plugin listed! — STOP the loop. Tell the user clearly:
  • The exact entry from the manifest (source path, category)
  • The install command they can now run: /plugin install channelhub@claude-plugins-official
  • That README.md and install.sh should now be reverted from the --dangerously-load-development-channels workaround back to the proper install path (a follow-up commit for them).
• API call fails (rate-limited, network blip) — print the error and reschedule. Don't escalate unless 3+ consecutive failures.

Stop conditions

• Plugin appears in manifest → success, stop.
• User cancels.
• 30+ days elapsed (something's very wrong, escalate to the user).

Don't

• Don't check more often than 30 minutes — Anthropic is not deploying every 5 minutes; faster polling is just noise.
• Don't try to "force" the listing by re-submitting — submission already passed; the gate is security review on Anthropic's side.
• Don't forget to update memory once it lands. The project_plugin_published.md memory says "not live yet" — flip it.