plugin_policy_blocked
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.301 and was gone by v2.1.302.
Plugin updates blocked by org policy now fail early with a stated reason instead of quietly stalling.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.238.
In the changelogs
4Releases whose published page names plugin_policy_blocked.
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v2.1.287
Plugin uninstall and update check the Anthropic Directory more strictly
Removing or updating plugins from the Anthropic Directory now runs stricter checks, gives specific failure reasons, and can be turned off by admins
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.281
Plugin policy-block messages factored into one helper
Plugin and marketplace policy-block messages now come from one shared helper, with the same wording as before
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.268
Plugin enable/disable results now carry a machine-readable failureCode
Plugin enable/disable failures now return a machine-readable failureCode alongside the human-readable error message
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.238
Plugin updates blocked by org policy report why they were skipped
Plugin updates blocked by org policy now fail early with a stated reason instead of quietly stalling.
found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted plugin_policy_blocked was v2.1.268, 10 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
2Build by build
8One 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 settings key does. All settings keys.