{"version":"2.1.221","anchor":"async-agents-may-now-use-the-plugin-and-skill-discovery-tool","canonical_anchor":"async-agents-may-now-use-the-plugin-and-skill-discovery-tool","heading":"Async agents may now use the plugin and skill discovery tools","tier":"notice","area":"Agents","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221\/e\/async-agents-may-now-use-the-plugin-and-skill-discovery-tool","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221","markdown":"### Async agents may now use the plugin and skill discovery tools\n\nBackground agents can now search and list plugins and skills instead of being blocked from those tools.\n\n**What**\n\nSearchPlugins, SearchSkills, ListPlugins and ListSkills are no longer filtered out of the tool set an async agent is allowed to run.\n\n**Details**\n\n- The filter list is built from the same builder used for the coordinator-mode tool listing, and now has the four names spread into it as a group.\n- Previously those names appeared only as individual tool definitions; the grouped list is new in this build.\n- Nothing gates the addition itself, but other per-tool filters still apply on top of it.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`VAo = [\"SearchPlugins\", \"SearchSkills\", \"ListPlugins\", \"ListSkills\"];`\n\n- Area: Agents\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5"}