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Plugin/skill suggestions: fallback search and a new inline install card

Onboarding now falls back to searching for a productivity plugin, and a new SuggestPluginInstall tool renders a verified inline install card

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AreaPlugin Installwhat it touches
KindIn Developmentin v2.1.277,
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Onboarding now falls back to searching for a productivity plugin, and a new SuggestPluginInstall tool renders a verified inline install card

What

  • When a user skips or dismisses the role picker during onboarding, Claude Code now runs a plugin search for a productivity plugin (after checking already-installed plugins) instead of unconditionally suggesting one, and skips the recommendation widget entirely if nothing is found.
  • A new tool, SuggestPluginInstall, takes plugin suggestions sourced from search results, verifies each suggested plugin id against the user's claude.ai plugin catalog, drops any ids that don't resolve or turn out to be skills rather than plugins, and renders an inline install card. It refuses to render anything if none of the suggested ids can be verified.
  • The plugin/skill search request logic was factored into a shared helper used by both the existing search tool and the new SuggestPluginInstall tool's detail-fetch path, with the same policy-denial and no-scope-skip behavior preserved.

Why

These changes make plugin recommendations more reliable: suggestions are only shown when backed by a real search result and a verified catalog entry, cutting down on broken or irrelevant install prompts.

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