You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.287,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude Code reports more accurately why a plugin (an add-on that extends Claude Code) is missing.
A plugin-not-found error is no longer shown for a plugin marked removedFromDirectory, unless registryReadFailed is also true.
When the plugin registry could not be read, the message now says the plugin is not loaded because installed_plugins.json could not be read, so its install could not be checked. Before, it said only Plugin "..." not cached at ....
Separately, when the autoUpdate setting is copied from your settings to plugin marketplaces, some marketplaces are now skipped based on their source.
Why
You stop seeing old not-found errors for plugins that were deliberately removed from the directory. When a plugin really is missing because its install record could not be read, the message points at installed_plugins.json instead of reporting a plain cache miss.
