php-lsp

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Highlights

• No global installs, where the ecosystem allows it. Most plugins launch through a runtime fallback chain — JS/TS via bunx → pnpm dlx → npx, Python via uvx → pipx run. You only need one runtime from each chain on PATH.
• On-demand resolution. Packages resolve from the registry at launch time, so there are no pinned global binaries to keep up to date.
• Native-toolchain servers, honestly labeled. A handful of language servers (C/C++, C#, Go, Java, Kotlin, Lua, Ruby, Rust, Swift) have no npm/PyPI package to run on demand — their plugin invokes the bare binary and expects it already on PATH, same as the official Anthropic plugin directory does for these languages.
• Broad plugin coverage. Current plugins span language servers, MCP servers, PostToolUse formatter hooks, and an all-in-one bundle (languages-pack); the marketplace is structured to add future Claude Code plugin kinds such as slash commands and agents.
• Metadata-only folders. One folder per plugin — no vendored binaries, no submodules.
• Personal scope. These are the tools I reach for; expect the roster to drift as my own workflow changes.

Plugins

Grouped by current plugin kind. The roster is 26 plugins across language servers, MCP servers, formatter hooks, and one all-in-one bundle; future categories can be added when they become useful. All plugins live under plugins/ and are registered in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.

Language Servers — zero-install (11)

Resolve on demand through a runtime fallback chain; nothing to install beyond the runtime.

Plugin	Language	Runtime chain	Notes
typescript-lsp	TypeScript, JavaScript	JS/TS	typescript-language-server, pulls the typescript peer dep fresh
basedpyright-lsp	Python	Python	Stricter community fork of Pyright
biome-lsp	JS, TS, JSON	JS/TS	Biome language server (lint + format diagnostics)
bash-lsp	Bash, shell	JS/TS	bash-language-server; integrates with shellcheck when on PATH
yaml-lsp	YAML	JS/TS	Red Hat yaml-language-server
tombi-lsp	TOML	Python	tombi LSP; schema-aware for pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, and similar files
vscode-html-lsp	HTML	JS/TS	vscode-langservers-extracted (HTML binary)
vscode-css-lsp	CSS, SCSS, LESS	JS/TS	vscode-langservers-extracted (CSS binary)
vscode-json-lsp	JSON, JSONC	JS/TS	vscode-langservers-extracted (JSON binary)
php-lsp	PHP	JS/TS	Intelephense, published on npm
liquid-lsp	Shopify Liquid	JS/TS	Shopify CLI's theme language-server subcommand

Language Servers — native toolchain (9)

No npm/PyPI package exists for these, so there's no fallback chain to wrap — the plugin invokes the bare binary directly, and it must already be on PATH (same approach the official Anthropic plugin directory takes for these languages). See each plugin's README for install instructions.