# Governance How this marketplace is maintained, what you can expect from upstream, and how it's meant to be used. ## TL;DR - Solo-maintained, AI-assisted development, MIT licensed. - **Fork-and-own is the default model.** Upstream is a starting point, not a vendor. - Issues welcome as signals. Pull requests are not accepted — see [Why no PRs](#pull-requests--no). - No SLA. Best-effort bug fixes and security advisories. Breaking changes happen and are noted in each plugin's CHANGELOG. --- ## Can I trust this? Be honest with yourself about what you're adopting: - **One maintainer.** If I get hit by a bus, the bus wins. The repos stay up under MIT, but no one owes you a fix. - **AI-generated code with human review.** Every plugin is built through dialog-driven development with Claude Code. I read, test, and judge the output before it ships, but I'm not auditing every line the way a security firm would. Treat it accordingly. - **No commercial interests.** I'm not selling a SaaS, not steering you toward a paid tier, not collecting telemetry. The plugins run locally in your Claude Code installation. - **MIT licensed.** Fork it, modify it, ship it under your own name. If you work somewhere that needs vendor accountability, support contracts, or signed assurances — **this isn't that.** Use it as a reference implementation, fork it into your own organization, and own the result. --- ## How this is meant to be used ### Fork-and-own The intended workflow: 1. **Fork** the marketplace (or a single plugin) into your own organization or namespace. 2. **Tailor** it to your context — terminology, integrations, whatever doesn't fit out of the box. 3. **Maintain it yourself.** Treat your fork as the canonical version for your team. 4. **Watch upstream selectively.** Cherry-pick changes that help, ignore changes that don't. There's no obligation to stay in sync. For `claude-design` specifically, the most likely fork is a content adaptation — different intent-preset coverage (e.g., dropping `frontier-design` if your team never uses it), an organization-specific DESIGN.md template, a different evidence-grade discipline, or per-preset prompt patterns tuned to your team's design system. The plugin is a content surface plus a single skill. Forking it is straightforward. ### What to change first when you fork - **Identity** — rename the plugin, replace authorship, update README. - **Reference content** — the `references/` tree reflects what Anthropic published and the community converged on as of 2026-05-17. Adjust to your team's house style and design system. - **Frontmatter** — `name` and `description` show up in `/config`. Pick names that won't collide with other forks installed on the same machine. ### Staying current with upstream If you want to pull in upstream changes later: - **Cherry-pick, don't merge.** Each plugin moves independently. - **Read the CHANGELOG first.** - **Keep your customizations distinct.** A renamed skill (`my-org-design-facilitator`) merges more cleanly than edits to `claude-design-facilitator`. --- ## What upstream provides | | What I do | What I don't | |---|---|---| | **Bug fixes** | Best-effort when I notice or get a clear report | No SLA, no triage commitment | | **Security issues** | Investigate within reasonable time, document in CHANGELOG | No CVE process, no embargo coordination | | **New features** | When they fit my own usage | Not on request | | **Breaking changes** | Documented in CHANGELOG | They happen — version pin if you need stability | | **Compatibility** | Tracked against current Claude Code releases | No long-term support branches | If any of this is a dealbreaker — fork now, version-pin, and stop reading upstream. --- ## How to contribute ### Issues — yes, please Issues are the most valuable thing you can send me: - **Bug reports** with reproduction steps. Even a screenshot helps. - **Use-case feedback.** "I tried to use this in my organization and X didn't fit" is genuinely useful, even if I can't fix it for you. - **Content suggestions.** If a reference file in `claude-design` produces guidance that doesn't match what you observe in `claude.ai/design` today, tell me what you saw. Concrete examples beat abstract complaints. ### Pull requests — no This is deliberate, not laziness: - **Solo review is a bottleneck.** Honest PR review takes me longer than rewriting from scratch. The math doesn't work. - **Forks are where the value is.** The fork-and-own model means upstream consolidation isn't the point. Your organization's adaptations belong in your fork, not mine. - **AI-generated code complicates provenance.** Every line here is produced through dialog with Claude Code, with me as the judge. Mixing in PRs from contributors with different processes and licensing assumptions creates a mess I'd rather not untangle. If you've built something useful on top of a fork, **publish it under your own name and link back.** I'll happily list notable forks here once they exist. ### Notable forks *(To be populated as forks emerge. If you've forked this plugin for production use, open an issue and I'll add a link.)* --- ## Relationship between plugins These plugins are **independent**. Install one without the others, fork one without the others. They share conventions (slash command naming, hook patterns, AI-generated disclosure, and the shared `human-friendly-style` output style) but no runtime dependencies. `claude-design` is a content surface with a single skill — it works without any other plugin installed. It recommends Anthropic's official `knowledge-work-plugins/design` as the downstream tool for post-design critique, accessibility audit, and engineering handoff, but does not depend on it being present. The marketplace is a **catalog**, not a suite. Don't fork the whole repo unless you actually want to maintain everything. --- ## Versioning and stability - **Semantic versioning per plugin.** Each plugin has its own `CHANGELOG.md` and version number. - **Breaking changes happen.** I bump the major version when they do, but I don't run an LTS branch. - **Pin your version.** If stability matters more than features, install a specific version and stay there until you choose to upgrade. For `claude-design` specifically: changes to skill trigger behavior or per-preset reference content schema are minor or major bumps. Pure documentation or per-preset content refresh from Anthropic source updates are patch. The skill surface itself is meant to be stable across patch releases. --- ## License MIT for all plugins in this marketplace. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) in this plugin and each other plugin's `LICENSE` file.