{"version":"2.1.287","anchor":"marketplace-plugin-lookup-applies-a-post-resolve-transform","canonical_anchor":"marketplace-plugin-lookup-applies-a-post-resolve-transform","heading":"Plugins found in a marketplace pass through an extra step before use","tier":"internal","area":"Plugins","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.287\/e\/marketplace-plugin-lookup-applies-a-post-resolve-transform","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.287","markdown":"### Plugins found in a marketplace pass through an extra step before use\n\nWhen Claude Code finds a plugin in a marketplace, it now runs the result through an extra step that can replace it\n\n**Unclear.** What the extra step does to a found plugin, and when it returns a replacement, is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nA plugin is an add-on for Claude Code, and a marketplace is a list of plugins you can install from. When Claude Code searches your marketplaces for a plugin and finds it, the result now goes through an extra step before it is used. If that step returns something, Claude Code uses it in place of the original result. Before, the result was used as found.\n\n**Why**\n\nIn practice, the plugin entry Claude Code acts on may now differ from the one first found in the marketplace.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}