You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Plugin MarketplaceArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.274,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When Claude Code refreshes a plugin marketplace, it now classifies the result of checking the remote as current, unreachable, or stale using a new helper. The CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_KEEP_MARKETPLACE_ON_FAILURE environment variable, which keeps the existing local copy instead of failing, is now only consulted in the unreachable case, and only if the existing local clone still validates as a real marketplace. Previously it applied to any pull failure.
Why
This narrows the keep-on-failure fallback to cases where the remote is actually unreachable, rather than masking other kinds of pull failures by silently keeping a possibly outdated local marketplace copy.
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.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_KEEP_MARKETPLACE_ON_FAILURE, on Claude Code changelog.* Fixed `known_marketplaces.json` recording a marketplace as refreshed when its remote could not be reached and `CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_KEEP_MARKETPLACE_ON_FAILURE` kept the existing clonechangelogsee the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_KEEP_MARKETPLACE_ON_FAILURE, on Claude Code changelog.
