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Claude Hooks: Deterministic shell at lifecycle events, not LLM instructions.
Claude Plugins: How you ship skills to a team.
Claude Code: The host product.

Claude Hooks

Deterministic shell hooks in Claude Code. Run commands on edit, stop, and permission events, plus optional prompt-based and HTTP hooks.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94

Claude Plugins

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Versioned Claude Code bundles of skills, agents, hooks, and MCP. Install from the official marketplace with /plugin or enabledPlugins.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94

Claude Code

Development Tools

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94