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Plugin marketplaces gain an inference-credential auth mode

Plugin marketplaces can now authenticate using the app's existing inference credential.

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allowedPluginMarketplaces entries can now set credentialKind: "inferenceCredential" for url-sourced marketplaces. This sends the same credential the app already uses for its inference gateway or bootstrap server, so a marketplace hosted on that same origin needs no separate credential setup.

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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 credentialKind, on MCP, plugins, skills, and hooks. | `credentialKind` | How it authenticates | third-party/claude-desktop/extensions see the edit
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