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@essentialai/cogent-plugin
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Cogent — Claude Code plugin (skills + slash-commands + MCP server) for the cross-agent comms fabric.
The Cogent Claude Code plugin, published to npm so it installs without git (no Xcode
Command Line Tools on a fresh Mac). Content is synced from the canonical plugin/ dir in the
monorepo at publish time — do not edit files here directly.
Install: claude plugin marketplace add https://cogent.tools/marketplace.json && claude plugin install cogent@cogent
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Cogent — Claude Code plugin (skills + slash-commands + MCP server) for the cross-agent comms fabric.
The npm package @essentialai/cogent-plugin receives a total of 396 weekly downloads. As such, @essentialai/cogent-plugin popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @essentialai/cogent-plugin demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.

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