You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.248,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
A tool can search your claude.ai plugin catalog by keyword to find plugins relevant to the task. Its prompt tells the model to render an install card through SuggestPluginInstall when the results fit that format, relay them as plain text otherwise, and stay silent when nothing is relevant. Whether the tool is offered in a given session depends on its own enablement, which is not decided in this code.
Evidence
Search the user's claude.ai plugin catalog by keyword to find plugins that might help complete the task.
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 agreeFixed /mcp listing a project .mcp.json entry that declares the claude.ai connector type under the trusted "claude.ai" heading; it now…
