Source Intelligence

DisclaimerUnofficial, and not affiliated with Anthropic. Nearly all of this is read straight out of what ships: npm bundles, captured prompts, published docs. Anthropic's own notes go in verbatim, marked as theirs. The rest is my reading, and every entry carries the strings behind it. If one looks wrong, vote it down and say why.

All of v2.1.246 Home All releases olderv2.1.245 v2.1.247newer
Claude Code v2.1.246

Plugin refresh loads skills and can skip staged installs

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal1
Plugins

Refreshing plugins now reloads skills too, and the counts stop including built-in plugins.

What

Refreshing active plugins now loads skills alongside commands and agents and reports a skill count. Enabled and disabled plugin counts no longer include builtin plugins, so the numbers reflect what you installed.

Details
  • A new applyStagedInstalls option, defaulting to true, lets a caller refresh without applying staged installs or clearing the staged-install cache.
Evidence

applyStagedInstalls

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

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.246 →