{"version":"2.1.282","anchor":"marketplaces-refused-for-impersonating-an-anthropic-name-now","canonical_anchor":"marketplaces-refused-for-impersonating-an-anthropic-name-now","heading":"Marketplaces refused for imitating an Anthropic name now get a specific error and removal steps","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282\/e\/marketplaces-refused-for-impersonating-an-anthropic-name-now","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282","markdown":"### Marketplaces refused for imitating an Anthropic name now get a specific error and removal steps\n\nA plugin marketplace refused because its name looks like Anthropic's now fails with a clear error and instructions, not a generic load failure\n\n**What**\n\nA plugin marketplace is a catalog that Claude Code installs plugins from. Claude Code already refused marketplace names that imitate an official Anthropic or Claude marketplace, but the refusal surfaced as a generic \"Failed to load marketplace\" error, and the cache-miss message suggested running \/reload-plugins. Now the refusal is reported as its own case:\n\n- The error reads: Claude Code refuses the marketplace name \"\": it looks like one of Anthropic's own. Reloading won't help. Other load failures keep the generic \"Failed to load marketplace\" text.\n\n- The message explains how to remove the marketplace: a `plugin marketplace remove` command, or \/plugin then Marketplaces.\n\n- If the marketplace is declared in a settings file, it adds \"it is declared in a settings file: to keep it, rename it there\". Otherwise it adds \"if its maintainer renames it, update it instead\".\n\n- It warns that removing a marketplace uninstalls its plugins and deletes their saved data.\n\n- The failure is recorded with `nameRefused`, plus `nameRefusedDeclaredInSettings` when the marketplace came from settings. The reader for cached marketplaces tracks refusals the same way.\n\n- Load failures flagged `nameRefused` are excluded by the check that decides whether a plugin error is shown or counted, as untrusted reserved names already were.\n\n**Why**\n\nA marketplace posing as an Anthropic one will not load however many times you reload. The message now says so and tells you what to do instead.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Names: `\/plugin`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}