Plugin menu now tells you when plugin changes are queued to apply after the current response finishes
A new helper detects when changes to plugins (add-ons that extend Claude Code) need a reload to take effect, and reports it as either "deferred" or "queued" via telemetry. When a response is still being generated, Claude Code now shows: "Plugin changes apply when the current response finishes (/reload-plugins is queued)."
This makes it clear that plugin changes made mid-response aren't lost or ignored; they're just waiting for the current response to finish before /reload-plugins applies them.
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
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /reload-plugins, on Push events into a running session with channels.
Improved /plugin: installing, enabling or disabling a plugin now takes effect when you close the menu; /reload-plugins is no longer needed…
New in this build: tengu_plugin_menu_close_reload