Unclear The finding does not say what practical behavior change, if any, this produces for someone using plugins, only that the internal watcher structure changed.
What
The plugin hot-reload watcher, which watches plugin files and reloads plugins when they change, gained a "watch collections" abstraction. It now accepts watchRoot/listChildren/reloadPlugins, and exposes watchCollections/watchedCollections alongside its existing per-plugin watch tracking.
The plugin-directory watcher now separately resolves individual plugin paths and plugin-collection (folder-of-plugins) paths, calling watchCollections in addition to the existing watchPlugins, and logs both the watched plugins and the watched collections.
Why
This lets Claude Code detect and hot-reload plugins that live inside a folder of multiple plugins, not just plugins installed individually.
The finding does not say what practical behavior change, if any, this produces for someone using plugins, only that the internal watcher…