{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"plugin-zip-extraction-failure-can-keep-a-held-copy","canonical_anchor":"plugin-zip-extraction-failure-can-keep-a-held-copy","heading":"A plugin archive that fails to unpack can now be kept","tier":"internal","area":"Plugins","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/plugin-zip-extraction-failure-can-keep-a-held-copy","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### A plugin archive that fails to unpack can now be kept\n\nWhen a plugin ZIP file fails to unpack, Claude Code can now keep a held copy instead of always deleting the file\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which plugin files count as a held copy and are kept.\n\n**What**\n\nPlugins add features to Claude Code and can come as ZIP files. When one fails to unpack, Claude Code used to always delete it as corrupt. It can now keep a held copy instead. Plugin loading also gets a new option for reading a plugin from a folder.\n\n**Why**\n\nA plugin file you hold a copy of is not thrown away just because unpacking failed.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}