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Claude Code v2.1.290 ·

Saved plugin marketplaces with look-alike names are now refused

Claude Code now refuses to load or refresh a saved marketplace whose name fails its look-alike check, even if it was added earlier

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Unclear Exactly which names the look-alike check refuses is not stated.

What

A marketplace is a catalog you add to Claude Code to find and install plugins. Claude Code checks marketplace names for look-alikes, names built to resemble a trusted one. That check now also runs when a saved marketplace is loaded, so a marketplace added earlier is refused if its name fails.

Refreshing such a marketplace stops with the error "Marketplace name refused by the look-alike check".

Why

A marketplace that was saved before the check existed could otherwise keep impersonating a trusted one. If one of your marketplaces stops loading, its name is the likely reason.

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The writer flagged doubtExactly which names the look-alike check refuses is not stated.

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