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docs: add Learning Hub article on installing and using plugins

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- New article covering plugin concepts, finding/installing/managing plugins,
  marketplace browsing, and how this repo serves as a plugin marketplace
- Add 'installing-and-using-plugins' to fundamentalsOrder in index.astro
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- Add Plugin entry to terminology glossary

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### Plugin
An installable package that extends GitHub Copilot CLI with a bundled set of agents, skills, hooks, MCP server configurations, and LSP integrations. Plugins provide a way to distribute and share custom capabilities across projects and teams, with versioning, discovery, and one-command installation via marketplaces.
**Example**: Installing `database-data-management@awesome-copilot` to get a database specialist agent, migration skills, and schema validation hooks in a single command.
**When to use**: When you want to share a curated set of Copilot capabilities across multiple projects or team members, or when you want to install community-contributed tooling without manually copying files.
**Learn more**: [Installing and Using Plugins](/learning-hub/installing-and-using-plugins/)
**Related terms**: [Agent](#agent), [Skill](#skill), [Hook](#hook)
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### Tools
Capabilities that GitHub Copilot can invoke to perform actions or retrieve information. Tools fall into two categories: