Group of 2 You'll notice
Adding a plugin marketplace by URL now refuses to silently replace an existing marketplace registered under the same name
What
When you add a plugin marketplace from a url source, Claude Code now hardlinks the downloaded catalog into the cache instead of always renaming it, and:
- If a marketplace with that name is already registered from a different source, the add is refused with an error instructing you to run
/plugin marketplace removefirst. - If finalizing the cache fails for another reason, a more explicit error is shown, explaining that adding a marketplace will never silently replace an existing one with the same name, and how to recover.
Why
This prevents one marketplace from quietly clobbering another that happens to share a name, which could otherwise replace plugins you already trust without warning.
Names in the bundle/plugin marketplace remove
Documented inclaude-code/discover-plugins
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 since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /plugin marketplace remove, on Error reference.
Marketplace "acme-tools" is already added from a different source (github:acme/plugins). To use this source instead, remove that marketplace first with /plugin marketplace remove acme-tools.errors see the edit
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /plugin marketplace remove, on Error reference.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Added /plugin install <plugin> --marketplace <source>, which offers to add the marketplace before installing the plugin