The Free Anthropic Plugin That Audits Your Claude Code Setup
Most people never set Claude Code up
They install it, start typing, and that's it. It works. But it's working with none of the tools that make it fast, and there's no obvious moment where anything tells you what you're missing.
Anthropic ships a free plugin that fixes exactly that. It reads your real project and tells you which pieces you don't have yet.
It is called Claude Code Setup, and it is read-only. It looks at your code and makes recommendations. It does not touch your files.
What it looks for
It scans your codebase and suggests the top one or two things in each of five categories.
| Category | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|
| MCP servers | Connections to outside tools | Pulling live docs, driving a browser |
| Skills | Packaged know-how Claude reuses | A planning skill, a design skill |
| Hooks | Things that fire on their own | Auto-format on save, block sensitive files |
| Subagents | Specialist reviewers | Security, performance, accessibility |
| Slash commands | Shortcuts for jobs you repeat | /test, /pr-review, /explain |
The point is that the answers are specific to your project. A Python data pipeline and a React marketing site get different lists.
Before you start
- Claude Code — already installed and signed in.
- A real project — open it in the folder you actually work in. Run this on an empty folder and it has nothing to read.
Install it
Inside Claude Code:
/plugin install claude-code-setup@claude-plugins-officialIf you'd rather look around first, run /plugin and go to Discover. It's in there under productivity, published by Anthropic.
Then just ask for it in plain English
This is the part people get wrong. There is no slash command to run it. You talk to it:
recommend automations for this project
help me set up Claude Code
what hooks should I use?It reads your project and comes back with a list.
What to do with the list
Don't install everything it suggests. Start with the one that removes work you're doing by hand right now.
If you're fixing formatting after every edit, take the hook. If you keep pasting documentation into the chat, take the MCP server. If you keep re-explaining the same review checklist, take the subagent. One at a time, and you'll actually notice each one working.
Three things that trip people up
- Waiting for a slash command to run it — installing the plugin is the slash command. Using it is a sentence.
- Expecting it to change your setup — it doesn't. It's read-only by design. It tells you what to add and you decide.
- Expecting it to clean up your rules file — that's a different free Anthropic plugin, claude-md-management, in the same directory. This one recommends automations; that one audits your CLAUDE.md.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it free? — Yes. It's published by Anthropic in their official plugin directory. You need a Claude plan for Claude Code itself.
- Will it change my files? — No. The plugin is read-only. It analyzes and recommends, nothing else.
- How do I run it? — Install it once, then ask in plain English: "recommend automations for this project."
- What if I don't like what it suggests? — Ignore it. Nothing is applied until you say so.
- Is there anything else worth grabbing while I'm in there? — The same directory has 276 plugins. claude-md-management is the other Anthropic one most people want.
Get it
The plugin: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/claude-code-setup
The full directory: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official