Plugin

Zai Cli

Z.AI vision, search, reader, and GitHub exploration via CLI and MCP. Analyze images, search the web, read pages as markdown, explore repos.

Type: Plugin
Repository: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace
GitHub stars: 2.8k
License: MIT
Repo last updated: Sep 27, 2026
Source file: README.md

What Zai Cli is

Zai Cli is a plugin published in the jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace repository on GitHub, which has about 2.8k stars. The repository describes itself as: “Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com.”

A plugin is a package that bundles skills, slash commands, subagents, hooks, and MCP connectors so they install together. Plugins are plain files with a manifest at .claude-plugin/plugin.json, and they work in both Claude Code and Claude Cowork.

Installing Zai Cli adds everything it ships in one step. Connectors inside a plugin still need to be connected separately, and hooks and subagents only run in Cowork and Claude Code, not in regular chat.

How to install Zai Cli

Claude Code

Add the repository as a plugin marketplace: claude plugin marketplace add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace
Install the plugin: claude plugin install zai-cli@<marketplace-name>, using the marketplace name from the repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.
Restart the session if the new skills or commands don't appear straight away.

Claude Cowork

Open Customize → Plugins and choose Add marketplace.
Enter jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (the owner/repo shorthand works for GitHub).
Find Zai Cli in the list, click Install, then connect any connectors it needs from its Connectors tab.

New to extending Cowork? Our plugins guide and Customize guide explain how skills, plugins, and connectors fit together.

Inside the source file

An excerpt from README.md, shared under the repository's MIT license. Read the full file on GitHub.

A model-agnostic agent-skills platform. The canonical layer is harness-free by construction; Claude Code is currently the verified-native harness. Other harnesses remain engineering candidates until their native-path integration is verified; source research alone is never presented as public support.

> Version semantics: the release badge is this marketplace's display version. npm packages, including the ccpi CLI and publishable plugins, retain their own package versions; they are intentionally not expected to equal the display version. The version-surface checker governs the display surfaces without rewriting package semver.

Install

Inside Claude Code, one command installs the whole marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins

Or use the CLI:

pnpm add -g @intentsolutionsio/ccpi
ccpi install devops-automation-pack

Development prerequisites

Repository-level development and verification require Node.js >=22.12.0 and pnpm >=9.15.9. The tested Node version is recorded in .node-version. Run node scripts/check-node-version.mjs before installing dependencies when working on a fresh checkout. The independently consumable packages retain their own lower runtime declarations where applicable; see 000-docs/814-DR-STND-node-runtime-contract.md for the compatibility matrix.

Browse the marketplace · Explore plugins · Download bundles

Scale, labeled

Every number below names the cohort it counts and the command that reproduces it — an unlabeled count is how a corpus ends up with five contradictory answers to "how many skills."

📦 Live npm Downloads

Across 386 published packages in the claude-code-plugins namespace. Updated daily by GitHub Actions.

"Established" excludes packages first published within the last 30 days, so a bulk-publish event doesn't dominate the headline.

Top 10 by last 30 days:

Last refreshed 2026-09-22T01:28:22.414Z.

Ways in

Five real questions, five doors — each resolves to a live, generated surface, never a hand-maintained list:

By category — the table below, regenerated from the catalog on every sync.
By plugin — tonsofskills.com/explore, the full browsable catalog.
By skill — tonsofskills.com/skills, searchable across the whole corpus.
By job to be done — tonsofskills.com/cowork, curated bundles as one-click downloads.
By certification tier — the Certification section below, rendered from the live report.

Browse by category

The 19 categories below link into the live marketplace. Plugin counts are the catalog-entry cohort — regenerated from marketplace.extended.json by this generator; the catalog itself lives on tonsofskills.com, never in this file (§ 6A of the platform blueprint).

What the classes mean

Four artifact classes live in this repository, distinguished on sight and never blurred — provenance is a truth requirement here, not a UX nicety:

Certification

Not yet certified. The certification program (tiers T0–T4 with retained, hash-matched evidence) is a later epic of the platform blueprint; until its report exists, no artifact on this surface claims a tier. This line is rendered from the absence of certification-report.json — honestly, not cosmetically.

Contribute

Start with the contribution guide, then the intake and review standards every submission passes through:

Contribution requirements — including the AI-assistance disclosure expectation.
Skill submission intake standard — the tiered document matrix new plugins ship with.
External-PR review standard — how maintainers triage and what gets a submission merged.

Governance

STANDARDS.md — the public spec posture and the canonical-documents index (one owner per fact class).
The platform master blueprint — CI gates, release, docs governance, and this README's own landing contract.
GOVERNANCE.md · SECURITY.md · LICENSE

Before you install

Read the whole file first. Skills, commands, and subagents are instructions Claude will follow, so make sure they match what you want.
Check which tools, scripts, or MCP servers it uses. Local servers and scripts run with your permissions.
Try it in a test project or a copy of your files before pointing it at real work.
Pin the version you tested, and review changes before updating.
Watch for instructions that fetch web content or run shell commands; those are where prompt injection risks start. See our prompt injection guide.

FAQ

What is Zai Cli?

Zai Cli is a plugin for Claude Code and Claude Cowork from the jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace repository on GitHub. Z.AI vision, search, reader, and GitHub exploration via CLI and MCP. Analyze images, search the web, read pages as markdown, explore repos.

How do I install Zai Cli in Claude Code?

Add the repository as a plugin marketplace: claude plugin marketplace add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace Install the plugin: claude plugin install zai-cli@<marketplace-name>, using the marketplace name from the repository's .claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Restart the session if the new skills or commands don't appear straight away.

Can I use Zai Cli in Claude Cowork?

Open Customize → Plugins and choose Add marketplace. Enter jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (the owner/repo shorthand works for GitHub). Find Zai Cli in the list, click Install, then connect any connectors it needs from its Connectors tab.

Is Zai Cli safe to install?

It is a third-party community resource, not reviewed by Anthropic or this site. Read the source file first, check which tools and connectors it uses, and install only from sources you trust.

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