Anthropic's knowledge-work-plugins repo passed 24k stars while openai's codex adopted the same…
anthropic's knowledge-work-plugins repo passed 24k stars while openai's codex adopted the same plugin manifest format — claude's extension layout became the industry default. the agent ecosystem war isn't over models, it's over who defines the plugin standard.
winners get the distribution layer.
Context
The anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins GitHub page, as fetched on 4 October 2026, shows 24,014 stars, an Apache 2.0 license and a layout with .claude-plugin/plugin.json as the manifest.
The unit is GitHub stars, and 24,014 is a current snapshot that does not show when 24k was crossed, since no dated star history was read. That Codex adopted the same manifest format was not found in the text read. The only Codex link seen was a third-party community port, not OpenAI. Industry default is the author's opinion and is unverified.
Related work
- knowledge-work-plugins-for-codex (community port) ↗Third party, search result only.
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- A dated star history and an OpenAI statement on manifests.
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