Package What You Repeat
Find plugin ideas in the work your team already repeats, with evidence of how often, not in a blank-page brainstorm.
Where you'll practice this
One Promptles scenario teaches this principle directly.
Mine Your Own Repetition
Priya, the platform lead at Acme, can fund one Claude Code plugin this quarter. At last week's planning meeting people pitched a Jira sync, a Storybook generator, and an AI code reviewer, all from memory, and nobody could say how often those jobs come up. You've pulled six weeks…
Other principles in Context
Declare the Tools You Need
Name the connected source and what to do if it's unreachable. Access itself comes from the connection, not the prompt.
Describe Before You Prescribe
Say what happens now and what should happen instead, so Claude changes only the gap.
Describe Relationships
Say how your data connects and what happens on delete. Those are business decisions only you can make.
Explain the Integration Point
Describe the handoff: what starts it, what crosses, and what happens on a failure or a duplicate.
Follow an Existing Pattern
Point at something already done right and ask Claude to match it and reuse it.
Map to Real Components
Ask Claude to reuse the components you already ship, not build look-alike copies.