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Plugins

Plugins are the primary extension mechanism for Ptah. Each plugin bundles a coordinated set of skills and slash commands that target a specific stack, workflow, or domain — core orchestration, Nx SaaS backends, Angular patterns, React composition, marketing video.

Why plugins?

Out of the box Ptah ships with a lean set of defaults. Plugins let you opt into richer, opinionated capabilities without inflating the base install:

Curated quality — every official plugin carries a version in its .claude-plugin/plugin.json and is maintained by the Ptah team.
Per-workspace activation — enable only what a given project needs.
Live updates — plugin content is fetched from GitHub, so fixes reach you without a Ptah release.
Granular — you can enable a whole plugin and still switch off individual skills inside it.

How plugins reach your machine

Plugins are not bundled in the Ptah installer. On first launch (and on demand thereafter), Ptah’s ContentDownloadService reads the public content-manifest.json and downloads the plugin tree into ~/.ptah/plugins/.

~/.ptah/
├── plugins/
│   ├── ptah-core/
│   ├── ptah-nx-saas/
│   ├── ptah-angular/
│   ├── ptah-react/
│   └── ptah-video/
└── templates/
    └── agents/

Official plugins

Five plugins ship with Ptah. Each one lands in the browser modal under the category shown here.

Plugin	Category	What’s inside
`ptah-core`	Core Tools	8 skills — orchestration, DDD architecture, humanize-library, skill-creator, technical-content-writer, tribunal, UI/UX design, Ptah CLI usage — plus 5 commands
`ptah-nx-saas`	Backend Tools	7 skills — Nx workspace, NestJS patterns, webhooks, resilience, SaaS platform, deployment, SaaS init — plus `/init-saas` and `/initialize-workspace`
`ptah-angular`	Frontend Tools	3 skills — Angular patterns, GSAP scroll animation, 3D scene crafting
`ptah-react`	Frontend Tools	3 skills — React best practices, composition patterns, React + Nx
`ptah-video`	Creative Tools	1 skill — `video-showcase`, the Playwright-capture → Remotion-render marketing video pipeline

A sixth category, Your Skills, appears once you author your own skill — see Harness plugins.

Next steps