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Claude Code v2.1.242 ·

Enabling a plugin now fails when its dependencies are disabled

Enabling a plugin with disabled dependencies now stops and prints the enable commands to run first.

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What

If a plugin's dependencies are installed but switched off, enabling it now stops with a message naming them and giving the exact plugin enable commands to run first.

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currently disabled. Enable

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

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Names in the bundleplugin enable
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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 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
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up plugin enable, on Discover and install prebuilt plugins through marketplaces.

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