Plugin fails to load in Claude Code: path escape error + missing plugin manifest

[Jasperb3]

Problem

When installed via the Claude Code plugin system, the crewai-skills plugin fails to load with:

Plugin (crewai-skills@crewai-plugins): Path escapes plugin directory: ./ (skills)

This is followed by a secondary error once any workaround is attempted:

Plugin (crewai-skills@crewai-plugins): Plugin crewai-skills has conflicting manifests:
both plugin.json and marketplace entry specify components.

Root cause

Two issues in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json:

1. The marketplace entry includes "skills": "./". The plugin loader treats this as a relative path from within the
   plugin sandbox and rejects it as a path traversal.
2. There is no .claude-plugin/plugin.json in the plugin source, so the loader has no authoritative manifest to fall
   back to.

Fix

In .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, remove the "skills" field from the plugin entry:

Before

{
  "name": "crewai-skills",
  "source": "./skills",
  "description": "...",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "strict": false,
  "skills": "./"
}

After

{
  "name": "crewai-skills",
  "source": "./skills",
  "description": "...",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "strict": false
}

In the skills source directory, add a .claude-plugin/plugin.json that explicitly lists the skill directories:

{
  "name": "crewai-skills",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "CrewAI development skills for Claude Code covering agent design, task configuration, structured
output, and debugging common pitfalls",
  "skills": [
    "./getting-started",
    "./design-agent",
    "./ask-docs",
    "./design-task"
  ]
}

Each of these directories already contains a SKILL.md, so no restructuring of the skill content is needed.

Environment

• Claude Code plugin loader
• Plugin installed via crewai-plugins marketplace