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name: "Install skills via plugin folders + marketplace.json"
description: "Use when installing Grok Bot skills via plugin folders or marketplace.json."
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# Install skills via plugin folders + marketplace.json

## When
Use when SKILL.md packages should load the same way plugins do.

## Stop
Never dump a skill into chat memory instead of a plugin folder.

## Steps
1. Drop the skill folders into the plugins directory, **or**
2. Package them with a `marketplace.json` entry
3. Install via the plugins marketplace
4. Skills appear and load as part of those plugins

## Load
Plugins directory or marketplace.json. Plugins marketplace install.