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Claude Code v2.1.248 ·

Plugin layout gains monitors and workflows folders

Plugins can now ship monitors and workflows folders, with duplicate monitor names reported as errors.

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What

monitors and workflows are now recognised plugin subdirectories, and a plugin's monitor list is checked for duplicate names, with an error you will see rather than a silent skip.

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Monitor names must be unique within a plugin

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

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Names in the bundlemonitorsworkflows
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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 monitors, on Claude Code changelog. * Fixed plugins silently skipping a default monitors file or root SKILL.md that could not be checked changelog see the edit
Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up workflows, on Model configuration. * [Workflows are turned off](/docs/en/workflows#turn-workflows-off) model-config see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Agent SDK reference - TypeScript touched a line naming workflows after this was published. `effortLevel` accepts an [effort level](/docs/en/model-config#adjust-effort-level) name. It also accepts `"ultracode"`, which requests `xhigh` effort with [ultracode](/docs/en/workflows#let-claude-decide-with-ultracode) on. `applyFlagSetti… agent-sdk/typescript see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Agent SDK reference - TypeScript touched a line naming workflows after this was published.

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