Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.246,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
A plugin whose installation preference is required or auto_install is now classified as an admin install, a source distinct from plugins that arrived pre-mounted or that you installed yourself.
Details
The admin check runs first, ahead of the pre-mounted and user-installed cases.
The preference is carried through from the plugin API response into the classification.
Evidence
admin-install
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeChanged OpenTelemetry plugin events for plugins synced from claude.ai: plugin_id_hash now reflects the plugin's real marketplace, and…
