What
For plugins that come from a command, update failures now separate a plugin the background update skipped but that a per-session re-resolve may still pick up, from one that is genuinely inactive, and print the exact plugin update command to run yourself.
Details
- Whether the per-session re-resolve happens is itself conditional, and the messaging says so rather than promising it.
Evidence
it is left to the per-session re-resolve (when that is enabled) or an explicit update
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundleclaude plugin update
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 claude plugin update, on Claude Code changelog.
* Added `--accept-command <sha256>` to `claude plugin install` and `claude plugin update` to accept exactly the command a previous `--json` run displayed, instead of `-y`changelog see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude plugin update, on Claude Code changelog.