{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"plugin-watcher-reload-reworked-around-file-stamps","canonical_anchor":"plugin-watcher-reload-reworked-around-file-stamps","heading":"Plugin auto-reload now checks whether a file change was already loaded","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/plugin-watcher-reload-reworked-around-file-stamps","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Plugin auto-reload now checks whether a file change was already loaded\n\nClaude Code's watch on plugin files now compares file stamps to decide whether a change still needs to be loaded\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code watches the files of your plugins (add-on packages that extend it) and reloads a plugin when its files change. It used to decide this only by comparing the time a file last changed.\n\nIt now keeps a stamp for each file and a stamp for the copy it has loaded, and checks whether a change was already covered by the loaded copy. It also keeps track of which plugins are behind their files and which reloads it has already tried.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis should cut down on plugins reloading for no reason, and on changes that never got picked up.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}