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Bencium Marketplace - Setup Guide

Source: bencium/bencium-marketplace via skills.sh - 53.1K combined installs across 17 indexed listings; first seen Oct 9, 2026 (extended-query probe) GitHub: bencium/bencium-marketplace (446 stars, MIT; pushed 2026-10-04; per-skill plugin dirs: <name>/skills/<name>/SKILL.md, 16 SKILL.md files in the tree) Category: Design / Product / Marketing Quality Tier: 🟡 Beta - 446-star MIT marketplace; all sampled verdicts Pass; broad design/product/marketing scope

Bencium Marketplace is a Claude Code plugin marketplace by bencium.io carrying 17 skills and tools for design, marketing, architecture, and productivity. It was built around the Anthropic Skills guide plus bencium's own design and development philosophy, and its strongest entries attack a specific problem: AI-generated interfaces that all look the same.

The suite is organized into four families - Design (6), Marketing (1), Productivity (6 plus tools), and Development (4). Each plugin follows the standard Claude Code plugin layout, so skills install individually or as a set. A common starting point: pick one of the three UX designer variants for the job, then add design-audit and ui-typography to keep generated output sharp.

Installation

# Browse all available skills
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace --list

# Install all skills globally
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace -g --all

# Install a specific skill
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace -g --skill design-audit

Claude Code plugin

Add the marketplace once, then install individual plugins:

/plugin marketplace add bencium/bencium-marketplace
/plugin install bencium-controlled-ux-designer@bencium-marketplace

Other agents and editors

The SKILL.md format works with 40+ coding tools that support markdown skill files, including OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and Windsurf. For the Claude.ai Cowork app, copy a plugin's skills/ directory into your project's .claude/skills/ folder; for other tools, copy the skill files into the tool's prompt or context directory.

What It Provides

Skill Installs Use For
bencium-innovative-ux-designer 6,918 Bold creative UX that commits to a distinctive direction; landing pages and campaigns
bencium-impact-designer 5,005 Production-grade frontend interfaces that avoid generic AI aesthetics
bencium-controlled-ux-designer 4,384 Systematic UX for enterprise and regulated products; WCAG 2.1 AA, mathematical scales, always-ask-first protocol
design-audit 3,914 Phased, implementation-ready visual UI/UX audit plans (visual only, functionality untouched)
ui-typography 3,692 Typography rules for generated code: correct quote marks, dashes, spacing, hierarchy
human-architect-mindset 3,182 Domain modeling, systems thinking, and AI-aware problem decomposition
bencium-aeo 3,179 Answer Engine Optimization for visibility in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and AI Overviews
adaptive-communication 3,133 Adapting agent responses to high-context vs low-context communication styles
bencium-code-conventions 3,124 Code style and stack conventions for React/Next.js/TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Supabase
renaissance-architecture 3,121 First-principles software architecture, beyond derivative work
negentropy-lens 3,095 Decision support through an entropy (decay) vs negentropy (growth) lens
vanity-engineering-review 3,030 Reviewing code, architectures, PRs, and plans for ego-driven engineering
insurgent-campaign 1,847 Grassroots campaign design for teams outspent by incumbents; lift-test plans, no fabricated names
hungarian-humanizer 1,143 Removing AI-generated markers from Hungarian text (26 patterns plus 4 style markers)
eu-ai-act-reviewer 612 EU AI Act review workflows
organic-first-campaign 603 Organic-first campaign planning

The remaining 1 indexed listing is Agentic UX Design - Relationship-Centric Interfaces (3,166 installs).

Why This Matters for Hermes Agents

Agent builders increasingly generate frontend work, and the default failure mode of an LLM-built interface is sameness: interchangeable layouts, safe gradients, generic cards. This suite attacks that directly. bencium-innovative-ux-designer pushes a model to commit to a distinctive direction, while bencium-controlled-ux-designer does the opposite job for regulated products, holding output to WCAG 2.1 AA, mathematical scales, and an always-ask-first protocol. design-audit turns an existing UI into a phased, implementation-ready remediation plan an agent can execute step by step. ui-typography auto-applies correct quotes, spacing, and hierarchy inside generated HTML, CSS, and React. Because each plugin ships plain SKILL.md files under an MIT license, the same instructions load into any agent that reads markdown skill files.

Usage

You say What happens
Make our landing page feel distinctive bencium-innovative-ux-designer commits to a bold direction with shadows, gradients, and experimental typography
This healthcare flow must pass an accessibility review bencium-controlled-ux-designer applies WCAG 2.1 AA, mathematical scales, and an always-ask-first protocol
Audit our dashboard's visual design before the next build phase design-audit returns a phased, implementation-ready plan without touching functionality
Fix the typography in this generated React component ui-typography enforces correct quote marks, spacing, and hierarchy automatically
Review this PR for over-engineering vanity-engineering-review flags code built for ego rather than user value
Make our docs more citable by AI assistants bencium-aeo optimizes content for answer-engine visibility
Plan a launch with no paid budget insurgent-campaign audits spend asymmetry and assembles a grassroots channel stack with a lift-test plan

Verification

Confirm the install from the CLI or the skills directory:

npx skills list | grep bencium

In Claude Code, run /plugin and confirm the plugins you added appear (for example bencium-controlled-ux-designer@bencium-marketplace). Before installing, review the exact instructions the agent will read: each plugin ships its skill at <plugin-name>/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. For example, fetch the controlled UX designer skill file at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bencium/bencium-marketplace/main/bencium-controlled-ux-designer/skills/bencium-controlled-ux-designer/SKILL.md (verified reachable Oct 10, 2026).

Security

skills.sh verdicts for sampled skills (verified Oct 10, 2026) - re-check the security pages on skills.sh before production use:

Skill Gen Agent Trust Hub Socket Snyk
bencium-innovative-ux-designer Pass Pass Pass
bencium-impact-designer Pass Pass Pass
design-audit Pass Pass Pass

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Limitations

  • Verdicts cover three sampled skills only; the rest of the suite is unaudited here, so re-check each skill's security page on skills.sh before production use.
  • Claude Code plugin extras (commands, hooks, the emotion-statusline hook, and the spinner-verbs bonus) are not SKILL.md skills and only travel with the full plugin install.
  • The README and the indexed listings do not fully overlap: bencium-loop, relationship-design, and emotion-statusline appear in the README but not in the measured rows, while eu-ai-act-reviewer and organic-first-campaign appear in the listings.
  • The marketplace is young (446 stars) and tracked as Beta; expect renames and layout churn between releases.

  • MIT license per the repo; re-check the LICENSE and pin a revision when vendoring.

  • Snapshot data, verified Oct 10, 2026: 53,148 combined installs across 17 indexed listings; 446 GitHub stars; MIT; last pushed 2026-10-04. Counts drift over time.

Pro Tips

  • Preview before installing: npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace --list shows everything; -g --all installs the whole set globally.
  • Choose the UX variant by job: innovative for campaigns and landing pages, controlled for enterprise and regulated products, impact for production polish.
  • Install ui-typography even if you never invoke it by name - it auto-applies to generated HTML, CSS, and React.
  • In Claude Code, add the marketplace once and install plugins one at a time so each can be updated independently.
  • The spinner-verbs JSON and the statusline hook are cosmetic extras; skip them if you only want skill content.

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