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Claude Code v2.1.246 ·

Bundled Cowork plugin-authoring and data-viz skills dropped

Several bundled skills for plugin authoring, MCP discovery and chart palettes no longer ship with the CLI.

You'll notice Removed
JSON All of v2.1.246
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
RemovedKind: in v2.1.246,
RemovedSection of the release
What

A block of embedded skill content no longer ships with the CLI: the Cowork plugin authoring guide with its packaging steps, the component-schema and example-plugin references, the MCP discovery reference covering registry search and connector suggestions, the JavaScript and Python chart-palette validators, and the data-visualisation anti-patterns document.

Details
  • The marker strings from that content appear eight times in v2.1.245 and not at all in v2.1.246.
Evidence

Normal-vision floor

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

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