{"version":"2.1.319","anchor":"plugin-install-can-reuse-the-installed-on-disk-list","canonical_anchor":"plugin-install-can-reuse-the-installed-on-disk-list","heading":"Plugin installs can reuse the list of installed plugins instead of reading it again","tier":"internal","area":"Plugins","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319\/e\/plugin-install-can-reuse-the-installed-on-disk-list","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319","markdown":"### Plugin installs can reuse the list of installed plugins instead of reading it again\n\nWhen installing a plugin, Claude Code can reuse a list of installed plugins it already has instead of reading it from disk again\n\n**Unclear.** What a held plugin is, and how its handling differs between the two modes, is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nPlugins are add-ons that extend Claude Code. When Claude Code installs a plugin, it used to always read the list of plugins already on disk again. It can now be handed that list and use it instead.\n\nThe install then runs in one of two modes:\n\n- `keeps-held-plugins`, used when the list is handed in\n\n- `rereads-disk`, used when Claude Code reads the list itself\n\n**Why**\n\nThis skips an extra read from disk during installs. It also changes how plugins that are being held are treated during an install.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}