diff --git a/src/servers/plugins/discover.ts b/src/servers/plugins/discover.ts
index 72cf1011..5ae8f7d3 100644
--- a/src/servers/plugins/discover.ts
+++ b/src/servers/plugins/discover.ts
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ export async function discoverPlugins(root: string = PLUGINS_DIR): Promise<Disco
   for (const entry of readdirSync(root)) {
     // `_`-prefixed directories are scratch space, and dotfiles are not plugins.
     if (entry.startsWith('.') || entry.startsWith('_')) continue;
+    // Nor is the shared install target for plugin npm packages, which lives here because bun resolves
+    // node_modules up the tree — see npm-deps.ts. It was reported as a broken plugin on every discovery
+    // ("node_modules: no manifest.ts"), which is a warning nobody can act on and a denominator that
+    // makes the marketplace sync say 15/16.
+    if (entry === 'node_modules') continue;
     const dir = join(root, entry);
     try {
       if (!statSync(dir).isDirectory()) continue;