{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"plugin-install-refuses-when-the-install-records-cant-be-rea","canonical_anchor":"plugin-install-refuses-when-the-install-records-cant-be-rea","heading":"Plugin installs stop if the plugin records can't be read by your version","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/plugin-install-refuses-when-the-install-records-cant-be-rea","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### Plugin installs stop if the plugin records can't be read by your version\n\nInstalling a plugin now fails with an error if Claude Code's record of installed plugins holds data this version cannot read\n\n**Unclear.** What exactly makes the plugin records count as unreadable is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code keeps a record of which plugins are installed. Plugins are add-ons that extend Claude Code. Before installing a plugin, Claude Code now checks that record. If the record holds data your version of Claude Code cannot read, the install stops with the error \"plugin not installed: the install records hold what this build cannot read\", and it no longer goes ahead.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis likely stops an older version of Claude Code from overwriting plugin records that a newer version wrote. If you see this error, the plugin records were probably written by a different version of Claude Code than the one you are running.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}