Introducing the plugin marketplace for Azure API Center

Sreekanth_Thirthala

Microsoft

Apr 16, 2026

Enable API Center marketplace endpoint to allow easy discovery of AI assets in Copilot CLI and Claude Code

Today, we're excited to announce the public preview of the plugin marketplace endpoint for Azure API Center. This new capability makes it easier than ever for developers to discover and install AI plugins — including MCP servers and skills — directly from the tools they already use, like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI.

The problem we're solving

As AI plugins and MCP servers become core parts of the developer workflow, teams have struggled with a fundamental challenge: there's no central, governed place to find and manage them. Developers hunt through documentation, Teams messages, and wikis — and platform teams have no reliable way to ensure the right plugins are being used. Azure API Center has built the plugin marketplace to fix this issue

What's new

When you register plugins in your API Center inventory and enable the API Center portal, we now automatically provision a marketplace.git endpoint at your data plane URL:

Your marketplace endpoint is https://<service>.data.<region>.azure-apicenter.ms/workspaces/default/plugins/marketplace.git

This endpoint serves as a live, version-controlled catalog of every plugin in your API Center — with metadata, configuration, and install instructions ready for developer tools to consume.

Get up and running in seconds

We've designed the experience to be as frictionless as possible. Developers can add your organization's marketplace and start installing plugins with just two commands:

In Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add <url>
/plugin install plugin-name@myapicenter

In GitHub Copilot CLI

/plugin marketplace add <url>
/plugin marketplace browse myapicenter

Enterprise-ready from day one

The plugin marketplace isn't just convenient — it's governed. Access to the marketplace endpoint inherits the same authentication model you configured for your API Center portal, so your security and compliance posture stays intact. Platform teams remain in full control of what gets published; developers get a seamless, trusted source of truth.