What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
A marketplace is a catalog of plugins, and some marketplaces are just a folder on your computer. When you run claude plugin eval on an installed plugin by name, Claude Code now checks whether its marketplace is a folder:
If it is, the plugin is evaluated straight from that folder.
If the folder's catalog cannot be read, or no longer lists the plugin, the command exits with an error starting "cannot be evaluated where sessions load it".
Otherwise it falls back to evaluating a copy.
Before, the command used only the plugin's recorded install location and refused if that location was unsafe.
Why
Evaluating a plugin from a folder marketplace now tests the same files a session would actually load, rather than a copy that may differ.
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How sure we are
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Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed plugin list, plugin eval and plugin update showing a stale copy of a plugin installed from a local folder marketplace, and hot reload…
