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Claude Code v2.1.288 ·

Plugins you have installed no longer vanish when the directory briefly leaves them out

If a plugin directory refresh misses a listing that an installed plugin uses, Claude Code keeps it for a grace period instead of dropping it

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What

Claude Code keeps a saved copy of the plugin directory, the catalog of plugins it fetches from a marketplace. When a refresh of that catalog left out a listing, the listing used to be dropped from the saved copy.

Now, if one of your installed plugins uses that listing, Claude Code keeps it and records when it first went missing. The listing stays, and the plugin still loads, until a later refresh at least a set amount of time after the first miss also leaves it out. Only then is it dropped.

Refreshes of the catalog also now send an extra option with the request and notice when the same listing appears twice.

Why

A single unreliable answer from the directory no longer makes plugins you have installed disappear.

How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear what value is sent for the extra option on catalog requests.

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