Plugin enable/disable messages no longer always tell you to run /reload-plugins
When you enable, disable, update, or uninstall a plugin, or disable/uninstall one via a settings file, Claude Code used to always append the fixed instruction "Run /reload-plugins to apply." to the confirmation message. That fixed text is now gone, replaced by a fragment that is supplied separately depending on the situation.
This lets the confirmation message vary by context instead of always pointing you to /reload-plugins, which is useful since /reload-plugins lets you apply plugin changes without restarting Claude Code.
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.
If the install summary reports `Run /reload-plugins to activate.`, you don't need to act on it here, because restarting in the next step picks up the plugin.channels see the edit
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