TI Admin Claude Plugin

Overview

The TI Admin Plugin lets you administer Thought Industries platforms directly from the Claude desktop application. Browse course catalogs, author new courses with AI assistance, rewrite lesson content, and manage learning experiences — all without leaving Claude.

The plugin is built on the Thought Industries REST API. All write operations are configured as drafts only — publishing from Claude is not supported. Final review and publishing always stays with the human author in the Thought Industries admin UI.

The plugin is organized into three tiers of increasing autonomy.

Prerequisites

• Claude desktop application (latest version) — the browser version does not support this setup flow
• A Thought Industries instance with API access enabled
• A Thought Industries API key (see Get your API key below)

In the Claude desktop app, go to Customize → Plugins → Personal → Add marketplace and enter thoughtindustries/ti-admin-plugin. This uses the personal plugin setup flow — not the standard connector flow. You can also use the CLI:

# From the Claude Code CLI — add the Thought Industries marketplace
/plugin marketplace add thoughtindustries/ti-admin-plugin

# Then install the plugin
/plugin install ti-admin-plugin@ti-plugins

Once added, the plugin appears in Claude as the TI Admin Plugin.

1. 1.Log in to your Thought Industries instance as an admin.
2. 2.Navigate to {your-instance-url}/learn/manager/security-settings.
3. 3.Under the API section, create a new Ancillary API key — name it “Claude Key” and copy it.
4. 4.Store it securely — you will provide it to the plugin on first use.

The plugin needs two values to make API calls: your Thought Industries instance base URL and your API key. For CI or scripting, set them as environment values.

export TI_BASE_URL="https://your-instance.thoughtindustries.com"
export TI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Once installed and configured, just talk to Claude naturally — browse your catalog, inspect a course, read lesson content, author a new course, or rewrite existing content.

You: "Show me my courses"
Claude: (runs the list-course-groups Action)
        → Returns your catalog with titles, IDs, and content types.

You: "Help me build a course on API security best practices"
Claude: (runs the author-course Playbook)
        → Discovery → Outline → Content → Refinement → Summary
        → Everything created as a DRAFT for you to publish manually.

Every skill enforces hard gates — non-negotiable constraints baked into the skill definitions that cannot be overridden by prompting.