Should Every Service Ship a Claude Code Plugin? — Rethinking Distribution After codex-plugin-cc

OpenAI's official codex-plugin-cc is genuinely good: I never had to leave Claude Code to drive Codex reviews and investigations. Plugins are working as a distribution channel that delivers a service inside the surface developers already use. Starting from codex-plugin-cc's design, this post discusses which services should ship plugins from day one, and the tradeoffs to weigh before committing.

Distribute an npm CLI Privately via Cloud Storage — A Self-Contained Zip Recipe with Google Drive

A registry is overkill, but handing over the source feels wrong. In that gap sits a humble option: pack your npm CLI into a single self-contained zip and share it through a Google Drive link. Bundle the npm tarball with an INSTALL.md, share it via link or email restriction, and let a human fetch it from a browser and install it. Assembled here as a recipe that actually runs.