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Plugin installs distinguish what you asked for from what was pulled in

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Plugins

Plugin installs now distinguish what you asked for from dependencies, and explain pin blocks.

What

Plugin installs now carry a flag saying whether you asked for the plugin directly or it came in as a dependency, along with consent state passed down from the caller. Updates blocked by a version pin now report the reason as pinner_blocked rather than failing silently, and a plugin that cannot be found raises a specific error instead of quietly becoming nothing.

Details
  • Callers pass explicitInstall and consented; installs done to satisfy a dependency are marked as not explicit.
  • Two new in-memory caches were added to plugin state for marketplace helper lookups and directory-scoped marketplaces.
Evidence

skipReason: "pinner_blocked",

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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