What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
Validation no longer requires a plugin manifest. Point it at a path with no plugin.json or marketplace.json and it validates the skills, agents and commands underneath instead, printing a Validating components in: header rather than the manifest header.
Details
A directory named skills, agents or commands validates its own contents; .claude validates the components inside it; any other directory validates those under .claude, plus top-level ones when the directory looks like a plugin checkout.
Unexpected-error output is now truncated to 200 characters.
Evidence
Validating components in:
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
