What
plugin update, plugin details, plugin enable, plugin marketplace update and their siblings no longer carry their own inline description strings; all of them read from the shared table that also hides early-access entries, so help text and the subcommand listing cannot drift apart.
Evidence
"Update marketplace(s) from their source - updates all if no name specified"
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.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up plugin update, on Plugins reference.
Other fields, such as `pluginId`, `scope`, and `failureCode`, appear only when they apply. The `--json` option on `plugin uninstall`, `plugin update`, `plugin enable`, and `plugin disable` prints the same object with that subcommand's own …plugins-reference see the edit
Added since
A small documentation edit on Create and distribute a plugin marketplace touched a line naming plugin details after this was published.
From the directory that contains `my-marketplace`, start Claude Code and run the following commands. The install command opens a plugin details view where you select an installation scope to confirm the install. Check the install summary: …plugin-marketplaces see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up plugin enable, on Discover and install prebuilt plugins through marketplaces.
* When you run `/plugin disable`, `/plugin enable`, or `/plugin uninstall`, Claude Code opens the plugin panel to make the change and leaves it open. Press **Esc** to close the panel before typing another command. [Apply plugin changes wit…discover-plugins see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up plugin enable, on Discover and install prebuilt plugins through marketplaces.