Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
AuthArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.273,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
When Claude Code logs in, it can now request an additional permission scope called user:plugins as part of OAuth (the login flow that grants Claude Code permission to act on your behalf). This scope is only added when a setting called PLUGINS_SCOPE_REGISTERED is turned on for the login configuration being used. The default and production login configurations now have this turned on, while configurations that use a custom client ID or an environment-variable override for the client ID do not.
Why
This lets most users' logins pick up permission for a plugins-related feature automatically, while custom or overridden login setups are left unaffected until they're updated too.
