{"version":"2.1.319","anchor":"plugin-attribution-can-carry-giveswaytoofficialinstall","canonical_anchor":"plugin-attribution-can-carry-giveswaytoofficialinstall","heading":"CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTION gains givesWayToOfficialInstall","tier":"use","area":"Plugins","scope":"both","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319\/e\/plugin-attribution-can-carry-giveswaytoofficialinstall","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319","markdown":"### CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTION gains givesWayToOfficialInstall\n\nThe CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTION environment variable joins the allowlist and its entries can set givesWayToOfficialInstall\n\n**Unclear.** What Claude Code does differently when the field is set is not known.\n\n**What**\n\n`CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTION` is an environment variable, a setting passed to Claude Code from outside, that describes where plugins came from.\n\n- `givesWayToOfficialInstall`: a new field that entries in `CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTION` can set. A sidecar file, a separate file stored beside the plugin, may not set it, and the log says so if one tries.\n\n- Allowlist: `CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTION` was added to the list of environment variable names kept with the Desktop skills and connector variables.\n\n**Why**\n\nWhoever installs a plugin can mark it as giving way to the official install of that plugin. Only the environment variable can set this mark, not a file shipped next to the plugin.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTION`, `givesWayToOfficialInstall`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: both\n- Heads-up: no"}