What
Plugins can add commands, skills (packaged instructions Claude can use) and agents (helper assistants Claude can hand work to). The code that loads these for a session now first checks whether they were already supplied from outside. If so it uses them instead of loading the plugins itself. Nothing in this build ever supplies them, so plugins are still loaded the usual way.
Why
This looks like groundwork for letting a host program, such as a program built on Claude Code or a parent process, pass plugin content in directly instead of Claude Code reading it from disk.
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