{"version":"2.1.290","anchor":"marketplace-look-alike-name-check-on-load","canonical_anchor":"marketplace-look-alike-name-check-on-load","heading":"Saved plugin marketplaces with look-alike names are now refused","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290\/e\/marketplace-look-alike-name-check-on-load","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290","markdown":"### Saved plugin marketplaces with look-alike names are now refused\n\nClaude Code now refuses to load or refresh a saved marketplace whose name fails its look-alike check, even if it was added earlier\n\n**Unclear.** Exactly which names the look-alike check refuses is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nA 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.\n\nRefreshing such a marketplace stops with the error \"Marketplace name refused by the look-alike check\".\n\n**Why**\n\nA 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.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}