You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.299,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
Plugins are add-on packages for Claude Code, and they can include hooks, which are commands Claude Code runs at set points. When Claude Code runs without its interactive screen, it now waits for plugin hooks to finish registering at startup before going on. /reload-plugins now also records when plugin hooks were reloaded.
Why
This may stop plugin hooks from missing events that happen early in a session.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /reload-plugins, on Push events into a running session with channels.When the install asks for an installation scope, choose the user scope option so the plugin is available across all your projects. Check the install summary: if it reports `Run /reload-plugins to apply.`, see [Apply plugin changes without …channelssee the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /reload-plugins, on Push events into a running session with channels.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed /reload-plugins not loading a plugin installed from another terminal a moment earlier
