{"version":"2.1.290","anchor":"plugin-marketplaces-look-alike-name-check-on-refresh-git-f","canonical_anchor":"plugin-marketplaces-look-alike-name-check-on-refresh-git-f","heading":"Plugin marketplace refresh skips look-alike names and gives clearer download errors","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290\/e\/plugin-marketplaces-look-alike-name-check-on-refresh-git-f","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290","markdown":"### Plugin marketplace refresh skips look-alike names and gives clearer download errors\n\nMarketplace refresh skips names that fail a look-alike check, and plugin download and integrity failures now give distinct messages\n\n**What**\n\nA plugin marketplace is a source Claude Code installs plugins from. Several things changed:\n\n- Refreshing all marketplaces at once now skips any marketplace whose saved name fails the look-alike check, including marketplaces added through settings.\n\n- A failed git download is now reported as either git not being found or the fetch failing.\n\n- When a plugin is installed from another marketplace as a fallback, you are told the original copy could not be downloaded.\n\n- A missing integrity hash and an empty one now give different errors. An integrity hash is a fingerprint used to check a download has not been altered.\n\n**Why**\n\nInstalling plugins is stricter about suspicious marketplace names, and failures say more clearly what went wrong.\n\n- Flag `tengu_plugin_official_mkt_git_fallback`: On for this account, and not off by default (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.290; this account: on, anonymous baseline: on, compiled default: on) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}