You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear The finding does not say how a plugin comes to have a directoryPin.
What
When Claude Code downloads a plugin with git and that plugin has a directoryPin, the clone now skips submodules. A submodule is a separate git repository nested inside another one. This applies to plugins from these sources:
The clone runs with --no-recurse-submodules and -c submodule.recurse=false, driven by a new noSubmodules option. The usage data recorded about each clone now also notes whether the plugin is a directory plugin, and the plugin loader is now given the git commit SHA recorded for it. A commit SHA is the unique ID of one saved version in a git repository.
Why
A pinned plugin no longer pulls in extra nested repositories during installation. If a plugin of this kind relied on its submodules being present, those files will not be downloaded.
How sure we are
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The writer flagged doubtThe finding does not say how a plugin comes to have a `directoryPin`.
