{"version":"2.1.311","anchor":"claude-api-skill-moved-into-a-plugin-gated-by-tengu-peppy-cr","canonical_anchor":"claude-api-skill-moved-into-a-plugin-gated-by-tengu-peppy-cr","heading":"New bundled cc-plugin-claude-platform plugin for Claude Platform docs","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311\/e\/claude-api-skill-moved-into-a-plugin-gated-by-tengu-peppy-cr","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311","markdown":"### New bundled cc-plugin-claude-platform plugin for Claude Platform docs\n\nA built-in plugin, cc-plugin-claude-platform, packages the claude-api skill with a docs MCP server, and is registered but not turned on by default\n\n**Unclear.** Whether the `claude-api` skill is still available on its own when this plugin is switched off is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code now bundles a plugin called `cc-plugin-claude-platform`. It connects Claude to the Claude Platform developer documentation at platform.claude.com through an MCP server, an outside program that gives Claude extra tools, at `https:\/\/platform.claude.com\/docs\/mcp`. It also supplies the `claude-api` skill, which used to be registered directly.\n\n- It is registered in the same place as `cc-plugin-claude-test`, which applies when `CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT` is not `local-agent` and another check is false.\n\n- Registering it does not turn it on. Its own check requires Anthropic's own API address, a process that is not an agent, and the `tengu_peppy_crescent` flag. It also includes a setting-style lookup that defaults to off, among other conditions. Nothing has been read yet about `tengu_peppy_crescent`.\n\n- `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_CLAUDE_API_SKILL` still disables the skill.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe `claude-api` skill now ships inside a plugin with a live documentation source. Most users will probably not see it active yet, and the existing environment variable still switches the skill off.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Names: `cc-plugin-claude-platform`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 5\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}