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Adding a plugin marketplace no longer silently overwrites an existing one

Adding a plugin marketplace by URL now refuses to silently replace an existing marketplace registered under the same name

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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 remove first.
  • 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.

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Names in the bundle/plugin marketplace remove
What the documentation says
Since it was published

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
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /plugin marketplace remove, on Error reference.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded /plugin install <plugin> --marketplace <source>, which offers to add the marketplace before installing the plugin

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