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Claude Code v2.1.286 ·

Skills and plugins share one manifest download at startup

At startup, the skills and plugins checks now share a single manifest download instead of each fetching it

You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.286
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
StartupArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.286,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

When Claude Code starts, both the skills check and the plugins check need the same manifest, a list describing what is available. They now share one download of it instead of each fetching it separately.

Why

This saves a network request each time Claude Code starts.

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