Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.304,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
Messages waiting in Claude Code's queue now go through three steps: they are accepted, a plugin may intercept them, and then they are sent. Plugins are add-ons, and hooks are code that runs at set moments. Several things changed:
A plugin can now intercept a queued message through a hook.
Plugins' input can be held, for example after a Stop or by the host's limits. If Claude Code cannot read whether that hold is in place, a plugin's session.send is refused.
This changes what hook plugins can do while their input is held after a Stop. A plugin that sends messages may now be refused where before it went through.
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Anthropic's release notes agreeChanged mods' settings.read hooks to receive each settings layer and rewrite the merged settings, so a managed mod can make an…
