Plugin Marketplace Moved to Dedicated Repo¶
The Hands-on AI plugin marketplace now lives in its own repository: jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins. This fixes timeout issues when adding the marketplace in Cowork and other tools that clone the repo during setup.
Why the change¶
The main handsonai repo includes docs, images, and PDFs — over 100MB of git history. Tools like Cowork have a 120-second timeout for cloning marketplace repos, and the full repo was too large to clone in time. The new repo contains only plugin files (~45 files of plain-text Markdown), so it clones in seconds.
What changed¶
The marketplace add command is now:
Install commands stay the same:
The @handsonai suffix is unchanged — only the marketplace URL is different.
Migration for existing users¶
If you previously added the marketplace with jamesgray-ai/handsonai, update it:
Your installed plugins will continue to work. The next /plugin update --all will pull from the new repo.