Capability 12
Add-ons from a directory.
Exact name Marketplace extension
Step 03 · Get connectedWhat it is.
A catalogue of extras, such as connections, skills or ready-made agents, that you or your admin can add to the tool.
What your tool calls it.
- Plugin directory: OpenAI's catalogue of installable plugins. It replaced the app directory and is shared with Codex.
Also at ChatGPT: plugins
- Claude directory: Anthropic's catalogue of plugins. Outside developers submit plugins through a developer portal, and Anthropic reviews them before they go live.
- plugins: Installable add-ons for Claude, first launched for Cowork. One example, Salesforce in Claude, bundles access to Salesforce sales data with 37 ready-made skills.
- Agent Store: A store inside the Copilot app where users find and install agents, such as Copilot Cowork during Frontier.
- Plugins: Installable bundles of connectors and skills for a particular job. They're managed on one Plugins page that also holds standalone connectors and skills.
- Grok Build Plugin Marketplace: A built-in catalog of plugins for Grok Build, xAI's terminal coding tool. For developers, not grok.com chat users.
Also at Grok: Marketplace (Grok Bot)
- MCP Connectors: Connections to third-party or self-hosted MCP servers. They come either from a Mistral-curated directory an administrator adds to the organisation, or from a server URL you enter.
Why it matters.
Our view: an add-on is someone else's code or instructions running inside your tool, and it may reach whatever you've connected. Who decides what gets added matters. Several vendors put admins in charge: Perplexity lets admins decide whether members can upload or create plugins, and Mistral's directory is where admins add connectors.
Not every catalogue is open to outsiders. Perplexity's Discover tab lists the plugins, connectors and skills that Perplexity itself publishes. Anthropic reviews plugins submitted to the Claude directory before they go live.
Words that trip people up.
- Plugin means four different things at four vendors. More on "plugin" →
- Renamed. ChatGPT's App Directory is now the Plugin directory.
- Grok's marketplace is for Grok Build, its developer tool.
- Not found for Gemini and Meta: our research couldn't establish a directory of add-ons for either. That isn't the same as "none".
Next to it.
One step up.
Step 04 · Let it workIt works through a job or on a schedule.
What this step asks of you.
Start read-only, with the least access that works. Approve each new connection before it's switched on.
Where we can help.
Who at your company decides which add-ons get installed? That's the kind of question an Enable — Checkup settles: it leaves you with a governance starting point, including how new tools get approved.