By Avinash, GenAI Practice Lead | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 of 6 Claude Code has a growing plugin ecosystem. The temptation is to install everything — more agents, more skills, more coverage. This is the wrong approach, especially on a Pro plan. Every plugin injects instructions into your session context at startup. A plugin with 38 agents and 156 skills adds a meaningful token overhead to every single session, whether you use those skills or not. On Pro where you're paying per input token, a bloated plugin stack is a recurring tax on every conversation. I installed, evaluated, and removed several plugins before settling on 9 that earn their place. Here's the final stack and the reasoning behind each. The 9 Plugins caveman — strips filler from Claude's responses. No pleasantries, no hedging, just signal. The benchmarks show ~65% output token reduction on coding tasks.…