Problem
The Plugins gallery currently stretches each connector across a full-width row. At desktop widths, the plugin identity and its action feel disconnected, while long category sections make the catalog slower to scan.
We should keep Plugins / Skills as the content-level navigation without repeating the same tab treatment for category filtering.
Proposal
- Keep Plugins / Skills as the only tab list.
- Replace category tabs with compact filter chips: All, Connected, Work, Developer, and Research.
- Make chips visually distinct from tabs: contained shapes, spacing between controls, no underline, and a quiet selected state using existing semantic tokens.
- Render the plugin catalog in two equal columns at desktop widths, collapsing to one column on narrower screens.
- Keep each plugin logo, name, outcome sentence, connection status, and Connect / Manage action in one tight local grouping.
- Preserve the existing page-level search behavior.
Interaction
- All is selected by default.
- Selecting a chip filters the current catalog without changing routes.
- Chip counts reflect the available result set.
- Connected acts as a quick status filter.
- Connect continues into the existing connection flow; connected plugins use Manage.
Acceptance criteria
Proposed direction
Use the approved two-column catalog mockup as the hierarchy and layout reference; it is not a pixel specification.
Problem
The Plugins gallery currently stretches each connector across a full-width row. At desktop widths, the plugin identity and its action feel disconnected, while long category sections make the catalog slower to scan.
We should keep Plugins / Skills as the content-level navigation without repeating the same tab treatment for category filtering.
Proposal
Interaction
Acceptance criteria
Proposed direction
Use the approved two-column catalog mockup as the hierarchy and layout reference; it is not a pixel specification.