From 4458488fcd0cbe31a2eaff40cfde52fac3995a2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Lovell <ben.j.lovell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 15:50:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: publish Tower as an installable Claude Code plugin

Add .claude-plugin/marketplace.json cataloguing the Tower plugin, and
move the plugin (plugin.json, skills/, .mcp.json) into plugin/ so an
install caches only the plugin, not the whole repo.
---
 .claude-plugin/marketplace.json                     | 13 +++++++++++++
 .github/workflows/regenerate-skill.yml              |  6 +++---
 .../.claude-plugin}/plugin.json                     |  0
 .mcp.json => plugin/.mcp.json                       |  0
 {skills => plugin/skills}/tower/SKILL.md            |  0
 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
 rename {.claude-plugin => plugin/.claude-plugin}/plugin.json (100%)
 rename .mcp.json => plugin/.mcp.json (100%)
 rename {skills => plugin/skills}/tower/SKILL.md (100%)

diff --git a/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4586a478
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{
+  "name": "tower-cli",
+  "owner": {
+    "name": "Tower"
+  },
+  "plugins": [
+    {
+      "name": "tower",
+      "source": "./plugin",
+      "description": "Tower compute platform — run and deploy Python apps, pipelines, and AI agents"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/regenerate-skill.yml b/.github/workflows/regenerate-skill.yml
index ea16be2d..cc7a02ed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/regenerate-skill.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/regenerate-skill.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
     paths:
       - 'crates/tower-cmd/**'
       - 'crates/tower/**'
-      - 'skills/tower/SKILL.md'
+      - 'plugin/skills/tower/SKILL.md'
       - '.github/workflows/regenerate-skill.yml'
 
 concurrency:
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
 
       - name: Regenerate SKILL.md
-        run: cargo run --quiet --bin tower -- skill generate > skills/tower/SKILL.md
+        run: cargo run --quiet --bin tower -- skill generate > plugin/skills/tower/SKILL.md
 
       - name: Open PR if SKILL.md changed
         uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
@@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ jobs:
           branch: chore/regenerate-skill
           base: develop
           delete-branch: true
-          add-paths: skills/tower/SKILL.md
+          add-paths: plugin/skills/tower/SKILL.md
diff --git a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
similarity index 100%
rename from .claude-plugin/plugin.json
rename to plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
diff --git a/.mcp.json b/plugin/.mcp.json
similarity index 100%
rename from .mcp.json
rename to plugin/.mcp.json
diff --git a/skills/tower/SKILL.md b/plugin/skills/tower/SKILL.md
similarity index 100%
rename from skills/tower/SKILL.md
rename to plugin/skills/tower/SKILL.md