--registry
A Claude Code CLI flag, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.275, including the newest one read.
Claude Code can now install plugins hosted on the npm registry, gated behind a new flag
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.275.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names --registry.
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v2.1.275
npm-hosted plugin marketplaces (behind a new gate)
Claude Code can now install plugins hosted on the npm registry, gated behind a new flag
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.275
Plugin install can now target npm packages directly, behind a flag
Plugin install can now pull straight from npm with a new --registry option, gated behind an account flag
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.51
Plugin Registry and Version Support
found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted --registry was v2.1.275, 17 Sep 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
1Build by build
41One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the CLI flag does. All CLI flags.