promptlike — Claude Code plugin

Reach your PromptLikeEngineer prompt library from inside Claude Code. Your prompts stay versioned where you saved them; Claude pulls one by name at the moment it needs it — no copy-paste, no stale duplicates in a system prompt.

Install

From the community marketplace (once this plugin is listed there):

bash

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community

Then install promptlike from @claude-community.

Or straight from this repo — works today, and useful for trying it before the marketplace listing lands:

bash

git clone https://github.com/zeynepaslierhann/promptlike-plugin
claude --plugin-dir ./promptlike-plugin

bash

npm i -g promptlike && ple login

Without signing in the plugin still loads and its tools are listed — each call just answers "Not logged in. Run ple login first." instead of returning prompts. The suggestion hook then uses your local prompts (ple save).

What it adds

Component	What it is
`promptlike` MCP server	Tools: `list_prompts`, `search_prompts`, `get_prompt`, `fill_variables`, `suggest_prompts` (read) · `save_prompt`, `update_prompt` (write — add only)
Your prompts as slash commands	Every saved prompt appears in the `/` menu as `/mcp__promptlike__<prompt-name>`; its `{{variables}}` become arguments. `/mcp__promptlike__save-this` saves the reusable prompt from the current conversation
Your prompts as `@` resources	`promptlike://<repo>/<prompt>` — attach a saved prompt with `@`
Suggestion hook	Before each message, a local match against your saved prompts; when one fits, Claude gets a one-line note (see below)
`/promptlike:prompt-library` skill	Teaches Claude to reach for a saved prompt instead of writing one from scratch, and to save good ones back

Needs promptlike-mcp 0.4+ (the plugin pins @0.4).

Saving from Claude Code

Ask Claude to save a prompt, or run /mcp__promptlike__save-this. Writes are add-only: save_prompt creates a prompt, update_prompt adds a new version and keeps the old one. Nothing is ever deleted, and saving the same thing twice changes nothing. Plan limits apply exactly as on the web — when you hit one, Claude tells you and nothing is saved. Content that looks like an API key or token is refused.

Suggestion hook — what it does and how to turn it off

On every message you send, the plugin runs ple suggest --hook (a Claude Code UserPromptSubmit hook). It:

matches your message against your saved prompts on this machine — a cached copy of your library (or ~/.promptlike when signed out). Your message is not sent anywhere;
stays silent for slash commands, short messages (under 20 characters), weak matches, and prompts it already suggested in this session;
otherwise adds one short note for Claude naming up to three prompts. Claude fetches one only if it is clearly relevant;
needs the CLI (npm i -g promptlike); without it the hook does nothing. It never blocks your message: it answers in well under a second or stays silent.

Turn it off any of these ways:

/config → PromptLikeEngineer → Suggest saved prompts → false
ple config set suggest off
PLE_SUGGEST=off in your environment (or in Claude Code's settings.json → env)

How often a suggestion is shown is counted on your machine only (ple stats shows it); the server only learns when Claude actually fetches a suggested prompt.