What
The list command registers built-in plugins before printing, so first-party bundled plugins appear alongside ones you installed, in both the normal and --json output.
Details
- Registration runs unconditionally on the list path, before the command's usage counter is emitted.
Evidence
registerBuiltinPluginsForPluginCommands
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundleclaude plugin list--json
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 claude plugin list, on Claude Code changelog.
* Added `--json` to `claude plugin install`, `uninstall`, `update`, `enable` and `disable`, and `errorDetails`/`noteDetails` to each row of `claude plugin list --json`changelog see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --json, on Claude Code changelog.
* Added `configDirectory` to the output of `claude auth status --json`changelog 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 --json, on Claude Code changelog.