What You Are Installing: The Local Service Spotlight Claude Plugin Explained

A job starts the worker, which follows a skill and leaves a result to check.

People receiving our plugin need to understand what they installed and what still has to happen before work runs. This page explains the skill, plugin, agent, scheduled job, and receipt. Use those terms to tell a box of instructions from a worker that has completed a real task.

This guide is part of AI Agent Implementation Guide (MASTER-2026.1). Next, explore How to Install Our Claude Skill Packs, or Persistent Agents: Why a Skill Pack Does No Work.

Master implementation path: MASTER-2026.1. This page explains skill vs plugin vs agent vs job. Directory: /canonical/.

This page is the canonical explanation of what we hand you, what is inside it, and what has to be true before it does any work. Every one of our sites links here rather than explaining it again.

The article process for any agent, ours or yours, lives at Article guidelines. You do not need the whole plugin to follow it. The plugin is how that process stays updated.

What a plugin is, in one paragraph

A plugin is a box. Inside the box are skills. A skill is one job written down to a standard — “audit this site’s SEO,” “harvest my positive mentions” — written so an agent can run it without you in the room. You install the box once; you get every skill in it, and every skill we add to it later.

You never type a skill’s name. You describe what you want in your own words and Claude picks the right one. That is the whole interface.

SkillOne job, written to a standard. 27 of them.
PluginThe box the skills ship in. You install this.
AgentThe worker who runs a skill. You hand it a job, not a script.
Scheduled jobAn agent with a clock. Runs weekly or daily, without you.
ReceiptProof a run happened and produced something real.

Owning the cookbook is not dinner

This is where almost every rollout goes wrong, so it is worth being blunt. There are seven states, and each one has to be proven separately. A green light on step 2 tells you nothing about step 6.

1
AvailableThe skill exists in the pack. This is where most “we have agents” claims stop.
2
InstalledThe plugin is in your Claude account and switched on.
3
ConnectedThe agent can reach what it needs — Search Console, the CMS, GA4, the ad account.
4
ScheduledA job exists with a time on it, and a place the result goes.
5
RanIt fired. There is a timestamp and either an output or an honest error.
6
VerifiedSomeone opened the output and it was correct. Not “the agent said it went well.”
7
OutcomeA call, a booking, a sale — traced back to the thing the agent made.
Say the number. “We are at 2 on all 22 agents” is a useful sentence. “The agents are live” is not — it is true at state 1 and at state 7, so it means nothing in between.

What is inside

27 skills. Install lss-everything and you get all of them — that is what most people should do, because the skills are written to hand work to each other. The four smaller bundles exist for people who only want one area.

BundleWhat it covers
lss-everythingAll 27. Start here.
authority-and-reputation7 — Knowledge Panel, AI search, reviews, proof
content-engine6 — articles, video, repurposing, distribution
client-operations8 — cadence, access, reporting, audits
quality-and-standards6 — verification, QA, judgment, system principles, and the registry

The full skill-by-skill list, with what each one does and when it last changed, is in the pack library.

How it updates

The plugin comes from one address: https://github.com/dennisyu/local-service-spotlight-skills. When we improve a skill we change it there. You refresh from the same address — you never download a new file and you never re-upload anything.

Be precise about this one. Whether that refresh happens on its own or needs a click depends on your Claude surface and settings. Do not assume a release reached you. Refresh, then run one real request in a fresh chat and read what comes back. That is the only proof that counts.

One GitHub repository can expose several plugin cards because the marketplace is a catalog. In our pack, lss-everything contains the same 27 skills as the four topical bundles combined, so choose the all-in-one bundle or selected topical bundles. The five-card and GitHub permission guide shows the real screen, explains plus versus gear, and gives the least-privilege setup.

Same skills. Claude is the install on this page. ChatGPT and Grok run the same jobs with their own agents, permissions, and receipts. The Grok desk is How I use Grok Bot. For the cross-model view, see how the same skill library maps across Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, and Grok.

What a link cannot do

We get asked this constantly, so here is the straight answer: no web page can install a plugin into your Claude account. Not ours, not anyone’s. Claude requires the person who owns the account to add it and approve it. A page can hand Claude the address; a human still clicks Install.

There is one exception, and it matters for groups. On Claude Team or Enterprise, the workspace owner can distribute a plugin to every member — it appears in their installed list with nothing for them to do. If you run a mastermind, a franchise network or an agency, that is the path: one person sets it up, everyone else simply has it. Individuals paste the address themselves, which takes about a minute.

What you need

ProThe minimum. Free accounts cannot install plugins or run scheduled jobs.
MaxWhat we recommend. These agents loop until the job is done. On Pro you will hit limits mid-run.
Team / EnterpriseAdds central distribution. An owner enables Cowork and Skills, then pushes the plugin to everyone at once.

Next

Install it — five clicks → See all 27 skills →

Canonical page. If you arrived from dennisyu.com, blitzmetrics.com or one of the Spotlight sites, this is the source they point at — so there is one description of the system rather than five that drift apart. Verified against Claude’s published documentation, August 2026: Use plugins in Claude, Manage plugins for your organization, Schedule recurring tasks in Cowork.

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