autoUpdate
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Plugin marketplaces gain a new claude.ai-hosted source type with its own caching and refresh logic.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.261.
In the changelogs
7Releases whose published page names autoUpdate.
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v2.1.287
Fewer stale plugin-not-found errors, and auto-update sync skips some marketplaces
Plugins removed from the directory no longer raise plugin-not-found errors, and some marketplaces are skipped when syncing auto-update
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.287
Project settings can no longer change auto-update for the official marketplace
Auto-update for the official plugin marketplace is now read only from user,
--settingsand managed settings, not from project filesfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.281
Plugin listing reads a per-plugin autoUpdate setting
Building the plugin list now reads each plugin's own autoUpdate setting
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.281
Plugins from the plugin directory auto-update by default
Plugins installed from the plugin directory now update automatically unless you set
autoUpdateyourselfnamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.261
New claude.ai-hosted marketplace source type
Plugin marketplaces gain a new claude.ai-hosted source type with its own caching and refresh logic.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.140
Marketplace
autoUpdateSynced from Settingsfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.63
Marketplace Seed Directory Support
found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted autoUpdate was v2.1.140, 12 May 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
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
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 settings key does. All settings keys.