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 # Claude Code official installer.
 RUN curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
 
+# Claude Code LSP plugins (C/C++, Python, TypeScript, Go) baked in so
+# in-VM Claude has code intelligence on first launch. Ports the four
+# language servers the original `setup` installed (claude-vm.sh:348-362):
+# clangd-lsp / pyright-lsp / typescript-lsp / gopls-lsp from the
+# claude-plugins-official marketplace.
+#
+# Marketplace registration first: `claude plugin marketplace add` clones
+# https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git into Claude's
+# plugin state, then each `claude plugin install <name>@<marketplace>`
+# resolves against it. The bare repo URL is what the original git-cloned
+# by hand; `marketplace add` lets the CLI manage the clone + index for us.
+#
+# Best-effort per the chrome-mcp pre-warm style above: a transient
+# registry/clone blip during the hourly build must not fail the whole
+# image. Each step is guarded with `|| echo skipped`; a missing plugin
+# costs in-VM code intelligence for that language, not a broken image —
+# Claude still boots and the user can re-run `claude plugin install`.
+#
+# Must come AFTER the Claude install above — `claude` didn't exist before
+# it. node/npm (from the nodejs RUN) and git (from the base apt RUN) are
+# both already present, which the marketplace clone + plugin resolution
+# need.
+#
+# Invoke claude by ABSOLUTE PATH (/root/.local/bin/claude): the installer
+# drops the binary there but the only ENV PATH in this file is
+# /usr/local/cargo/bin:$PATH, and Docker RUN uses a non-login /bin/sh that
+# never sources the shell profile the installer edits. A bare `claude`
+# would hit command-not-found (rc 127), every `|| echo skipped` guard would
+# fire, and the RUN would still exit 0 — baking a GREEN image with ZERO LSP
+# plugins. The absolute path matches the `--version` sanity check below and
+# the OpenCode block's /root/.opencode/bin/opencode.
+#
+# A `claude plugin list` runs after the loop so the build log shows which
+# plugins actually landed — without it the best-effort guards would hide a
+# total no-op behind a clean build. If `marketplace add` ever rejects the
+# `owner/repo` shorthand, swap in the explicit URL
+# https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git.
+RUN { /root/.local/bin/claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official \
+        || echo "==> LSP marketplace add skipped (will lazy-add at first plugin use)"; } \
+ && for lsp in clangd-lsp pyright-lsp typescript-lsp gopls-lsp; do \
+        /root/.local/bin/claude plugin install "${lsp}@claude-plugins-official" \
+        || echo "==> LSP plugin ${lsp} skipped (install at runtime if needed)"; \
+    done \
+ && echo "==> LSP plugins installed at build time:" \
+ && { /root/.local/bin/claude plugin list || true; }
+
 # OpenCode official installer. Installs into ~/.opencode/bin; PATH already
 # includes it. Symlink into /usr/local/bin so non-login shells find it too.
 RUN curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash \