Plugins are read again if their settings change while hooks are being set up

Plugins are add-ons that extend Claude Code, and some supply hooks, which are scripts that run automatically at set points during a session. Claude Code now notes the plugin-related settings in force when it starts reading your plugins. If those settings have changed by the time it picks which plugin hooks to use, it reads the plugins again first. It also reads again if it cannot work out which settings it started under.

More settings now count as plugin-affecting. Alongside enabled plugins, plugin configuration, trusted sources, marketplaces and policy settings, these now include:

• vouching settings
• disablePluginDirectory
• disableCommandPluginSources