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Claude Code v2.1.281 ·

Plugin Discover screen: marketplace filter, pre-filled search, and blocked-marketplace handling

The Discover plugins screen can open pre-filled with a search or marketplace, filter by marketplace, and handles blocked marketplaces

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What

The Discover plugins screen is where you browse plugins, which are add-on packages of extra features, from marketplaces, which are the catalogues plugins are listed in. It has several changes:

  • It can open with a marketplace already chosen (initialMarketplace) and a search already typed (initialSearchQuery). Search mode opens once the plugins have loaded.
  • Plugins can be filtered by marketplace (marketplaceFilter). A keyboard shortcut context for this filter is active only when there are more than two marketplaces.
  • A new check reports a marketplace as "blocked" or "unavailable". When it reports "blocked", marketplaces from certain sources are not counted as configured.
  • Plugins that match through installCountIds are now excluded, and those ids are also sent in suggestion telemetry, the usage data sent back to Anthropic.
  • The plugin details screen now uses install and back actions (onInstall, onBack) instead of a numbered menu position.

Marketplace loading from this screen is tagged with the surface discover. Plugin installs record a surface unless the install was triggered by a hint.

Why

Other parts of Claude Code can send you straight to a filtered, pre-searched view instead of an empty list. Blocked marketplaces no longer count towards the marketplaces you appear to have set up.

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