{"version":"2.1.246","anchor":"plugin-refresh-loads-skills-and-can-skip-staged-installs","canonical_anchor":"plugin-refresh-loads-skills-and-can-skip-staged-installs","heading":"Plugin refresh loads skills and can skip staged installs","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246\/e\/plugin-refresh-loads-skills-and-can-skip-staged-installs","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246","markdown":"### Plugin refresh loads skills and can skip staged installs\n\nRefreshing plugins now reloads skills too, and the counts stop including built-in plugins.\n\n**What**\n\nRefreshing 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.\n\n**Details**\n\n- A new `applyStagedInstalls` option, defaulting to true, lets a caller refresh without applying staged installs or clearing the staged-install cache.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`applyStagedInstalls`\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}