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Plugin APIArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.275,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
Unclear The finding shows the method wired into the dispatch table and SDK but not called elsewhere, so what a plugin author would use it for in practice is unclear.
What
A new method, ui.panes, was added to the plugin runtime API. It returns the list of UI panes (panels) that belong to the calling plugin, including each pane's id, title, and whether it's shown, focused, or placed. The plugin SDK now exposes this as panes(). Unlike the similar ui.open, ui.close, ui.scroll, and ui.focus methods, ui.panes has no permission check attached to it.
Why
This gives plugin authors a way to inspect their own panes' state, though nothing else in Claude Code currently calls it, so its practical use isn't yet visible.
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