No GitHub, no terminal, no commands. Approved AI Forge plugins land in the "Your organization" tab of your Cowork Directory. Hit Install and the plugin sets itself up. Updates roll out automatically as the team ships fixes.
About a minute. The video shows the exact clicks inside Cowork from opening the Directory to installing and using a plugin.
Add the marketplace once. Install any plugin in a single line. The customizer asks for your credentials.
A one-minute walkthrough
Sign in to Claude Cowork the way you normally do. AI Forge plugins are published to your Valsoft organisation by the reviewer, so you don't need GitHub, you don't need any setup, you don't need to know what a plugin is.
Click the plus sign next to Organization plugins in your sidebar, or open the Directory from the menu. A dialog opens listing every plugin available to you.
Three tabs sit across the top of the Directory: Your organization, Anthropic & Partners, Personal. Click Your organization. You'll see every AI Forge plugin sitting there.
Scroll through the list, or search by name. When you find what you need, click Install. Cowork sets it up. Some plugins ask you for a credential or two on first run (like an Outlook tenant ID); just answer the prompts.
No. Everything you install through the Cowork Directory has already been packaged and published for you. You don't need a GitHub account, you don't need to run any commands, you don't need to know what a plugin folder is.
Plugin credentials stay on your machine. The customizer asks you for them on first run (e.g. an Outlook tenant ID, a Teams webhook URL). The marketplace never sees them.
Each plugin ships with a diagnostic prompt. Trigger "this isn't working" in Claude and your local Claude walks you through the fix. Core and Approved plugins also have a maintainer on the hook.
Yes. Hit Submit, drag your folder in, fill in a few fields. The scrubber strips credentials in your browser. Once the reviewer approves it, it's available to every Cowork user across the portfolio.
If you're a developer with Claude Code CLI and direct access to the Valsoft GitHub org, you can still /plugin marketplace add the curated repo and install from the command line. The Cowork Directory path is the default and is what we recommend for everyone else.