You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.224,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude Code now records, for each enabled plugin, whether it came from this session's own config. Lockfile freshness checks only require a matching lock entry for those plugins, so plugins inherited from elsewhere no longer trigger a relock.
Evidence
fromOwnConfig
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
