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398 Plugins synced from claude.ai
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401In [Cowork](https://claude.com/product/cowork) and [cloud sessions](/docs/en/cloud-environments#what-carries-over-from-your-setup), Claude Code downloads the plugins enabled for your claude.ai account into `~/.claude/plugins/synced/` in the session's own environment and loads each one as `<name>@synced`, with no marketplace and no install record. Claude Code doesn't load them in sessions you start in your own terminal. On a machine where a synced session has run, `claude plugin list` still shows the downloaded copies, under a `Synced from claude.ai` heading that notes they load only in a synced session. Before v2.1.239, Claude Code loaded these plugins as `<name>@inline`, the identity that `--plugin-dir` plugins use.
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403Manage a synced plugin by the `<name>@synced` ID that `claude plugin list` prints:
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405* **Turn one off**: in the synced session, run `claude plugin disable <name>@synced`, or ask Claude to run it. Claude Code saves the choice as `"<name>@synced": false` in that environment's user-level [`enabledPlugins`](/docs/en/settings-reference#enabledplugins). To turn the plugin back on, run `claude plugin enable <name>@synced` in the same session. To keep a plugin out of every synced session, [turn it off for your claude.ai account](/docs/en/desktop#extend-claude-code). To keep it out of one project's synced sessions in every environment, set `"<name>@synced": false` under `enabledPlugins` in that project's committed `.claude/settings.json`.
406* **Manage the plugin itself on claude.ai**: `claude plugin install`, `update`, and `uninstall` don't apply to a synced plugin. To remove one, turn the plugin off for your claude.ai account; the next synced session starts without it.
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408When an enabled plugin from any other source, such as a marketplace install, a [skills-directory plugin](#skills-directory-plugins), or a `--plugin-dir` plugin, matches a synced plugin's name, Claude Code loads that plugin and reports the synced copy as not loaded. To use the claude.ai copy instead, disable your own copy. Before v2.1.239, Claude Code loaded the synced copy instead of a same-named marketplace install.
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397412## Plugin manifest schema
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399414The `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` file defines your plugin's metadata and configuration.
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11111126Within an interactive session, `/plugin list` prints a similar listing inline, but it covers marketplace-installed plugins only:
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11131128* Plugins loaded from skills directories appear in the `/plugin` interface and in `claude plugin list`, but not in the inline `/plugin list` output.
1114* Plugins loaded for the session with `--plugin-dir` or `--plugin-url` appear in the `/plugin` interface, and in `claude plugin list` only when the same flag precedes the subcommand, as in `claude --plugin-dir <dir> plugin list`. They have no installed record, so a bare `claude plugin list` doesn't show them.
1129* On Claude Code v2.1.239 or later, [plugins synced from claude.ai](#synced-plugins) appear in `claude plugin list` on any machine where a synced session has downloaded them, with a note that they load only in a synced session. They don't appear in the inline `/plugin list` output.
1130* Plugins loaded for the session with `--plugin-dir` or `--plugin-url` appear in the `/plugin` interface, and in `claude plugin list` only when the same flag precedes the subcommand, as in `claude --plugin-dir <dir> plugin list`. Only the flag names their location, so a bare `claude plugin list` can't find them, unlike synced plugins and skills-directory plugins, whose fixed directories Claude Code scans.
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11161132The interactive form accepts `--enabled` or `--disabled` to show only plugins in that state, and `ls` as a shorthand for `list`.
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