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# Install a plugin from a marketplace

Once a plugin shows **Published** in Packmind, here is how to install it and check it works.

## GitHub Copilot CLI

Add the marketplace, once:

```bash theme={null}
copilot plugin marketplace add https://github.com/<owner>/<repository>
```

List what it offers. The marketplace name comes from its descriptor, not the repository:

```bash theme={null}
copilot plugin marketplace browse <marketplace-name>
```

Install:

```bash theme={null}
copilot plugin install <plugin-name>@<marketplace-name>
```

**Restart Copilot.** A session already running won't pick up the plugin, and your install is only reported to Packmind at session start.

In the new session, call one of the plugin's skills to confirm:

```
/<plugin-name>:<skill-name>
```

## After a republish

Copilot caches the catalogue, so refresh it first — otherwise you keep getting the previous version with nothing saying so:

```bash theme={null}
copilot plugin marketplace update <marketplace-name>
```

```bash theme={null}
copilot plugin update <plugin-name>
```

Then restart Copilot again.

## Claude Code

Same sequence from inside a session: `/plugin marketplace add <owner>/<repository>`, install from the `/plugin` menu, restart, then call a skill.

<Note>
  Your install appears in the plugin's **Adoption** tab after your first session
  with it enabled — not at install time.
</Note>

## Related Documentation

* [Publish to a marketplace](/governance/marketplaces) — link a marketplace and publish packages as plugins