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410410 Plugins synced from claude.ai
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413In [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.
413In [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. Inside that Cowork or cloud environment, `claude plugin list` shows the downloaded copies under a `Synced from claude.ai` heading. Before v2.1.239, Claude Code loaded these plugins as `<name>@inline`, the identity that `--plugin-dir` plugins use.
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415415Manage a synced plugin by the `<name>@synced` ID that `claude plugin list` prints:
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11421142Within an interactive session, `/plugin list` prints a similar listing inline, but it covers marketplace-installed plugins only:
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11441144* Plugins loaded from skills directories appear in the `/plugin` interface and in `claude plugin list`, but not in the inline `/plugin list` output.
1145* 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.
1145* On Claude Code v2.1.239 or later, [plugins synced from claude.ai](#synced-plugins) appear in `claude plugin list` when you run it in the environment where a synced session downloaded them. They don't appear in the inline `/plugin list` output.
11461146* 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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11481148The interactive form accepts `--enabled` or `--disabled` to show only plugins in that state, and `ls` as a shorthand for `list`.
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