What
Plugin sources now include command: a shell command that prints the absolute path of a plugin directory. It is re-resolved on install, on update and once per session in the background, takes an optional timeout, and a mode of copy or link decides whether the directory is copied into the plugin cache or used in place. Installing one asks for consent first.
Details
- The command string must be printable ASCII and short enough for the consent prompt to display in full, so it can be read before you approve it.
- Declining the consent prompt is recorded as
command_source_declined. linkmode serves the plugin from the producer's directory rather than a cache copy.
Evidence
command must be printable ASCII (letters, digits, punctuation, single spaces) with no runs of 4 or more spaces
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
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A small documentation edit on How Claude remembers your project touched a line naming link after this was published.
The `.claude/rules/` directory supports symlinks, so you can maintain a shared set of rules and link them into multiple projects. Circular symlinks are detected and handled gracefully.memory see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up timeout, on Batches.
- `type: "timeout_error"`api/messages/batches see the edit
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A small documentation edit on Custom connectors touched a line naming command after this was published.
Local-command connectors run inside the sandbox with the same network limits as Claude's code and a per-connector writable directory. Environment variables for local connectors are saved unencrypted in a configuration file readable by your…claude-science/custom-connectors see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up copy, on Use Claude Science on a corporate network.
Claude Science stores the credential encrypted in its local database, using a key kept in a file only the member's account can read (on macOS, a copy of that key is in the keychain for recovery), and also writes the credential, automatical…claude-science/corporate-networks see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up mode, on Model configuration.
* The model doesn't support `xhigh` effortmodel-config see the edit
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A small documentation edit on User identity and local data touched a line naming copy after this was published.
| `vm_bundles/` | Cached copy of the VM workspace bundle that Cowork sessions run in, plus the data disk the app creates to hold those sessions' home directories inside the VM. |third-party/claude-desktop/data-storage see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up command, on MCP, plugins, skills, and hooks.