Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.280,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code has a new watcher for plugin directories that groups together file changes instead of reacting to each one individually. It applies a debounce delay (waiting for changes to settle), a burst threshold, and a storm threshold before triggering a plugin reload, and it rescans directories with a circuit breaker that can defer reloads when changes come in too fast.
Why
This prevents plugins from being reloaded repeatedly in quick succession when many files change at once, such as during a bulk edit or a git checkout, which could otherwise slow things down or cause reload thrashing.
