Org-required plugins can no longer be disabled/uninstalled, and enable/disable failures now report a machine-readable failure code
What
An organization can now mark a plugin as required via its marketplace/installation preference. Claude Code enforces this in several places:
- Attempting to disable a required plugin (or its synced counterpart) now fails with
Plugin "<name>" is required by your organization and can't be disabled here. Contact your admin to change it.A related check also blocks disabling a plugin that other required plugins depend on, unless abypassDependentsBlockoption is passed. - Uninstalling a plugin, and the "disable all enabled plugins" bulk action, now also skip org-required plugins (and anything they depend on), and report how many plugins were skipped as a result.
- The plugin details screen shows a new " · Required by your org" label next to a required plugin's enabled/disabled status.
- A new internal helper can force a plugin to be treated as enabled - bypassing user-disable and managed-disable checks - when it's marked required for its marketplace.
- Plugin enable/disable/uninstall failures now include a machine-readable
failureCodefield (e.g.not_installed_at_scope,settings_write_failed,already_in_goal_state,required_by_dependents,dependency_missing,dependency_disabled,dependency_policy_blocked,plugin_policy_blocked,ambiguous_marketplace,managed_name_locked,required_by_organization,builtin,not_installed,enabled_at_project_scope,partial_failure) alongside the existing human-readable message.
Why
This lets organizations lock in plugins they consider mandatory (for security, compliance, or workflow reasons) so users and scripts can't accidentally or deliberately turn them off, while giving tooling a stable code to key off instead of parsing free-text error messages.
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.
* **OAuth client ID** and **OAuth client secret**. You choose which of the two to ask for, and whether each is required or optional.connectors/building/authentication see the edit
What happens on Linux, or on a Windows or macOS device where the broker is unavailable, depends on the feature. For the inference sign-in flows (Foundry, gateway, and Workforce Identity), the app shows an error that names the browser flow …third-party/claude-desktop/entra-broker see the edit
Which specific marketplace this applies to is not stated.
A small documentation edit on Sign in through the OS identity broker touched a line naming required after this was published.