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[Bug] Plugin marketplace discovery broken after update to v2.0.62

Resolved 💬 16 comments Opened Dec 9, 2025 by CPaulBeroe Closed Feb 14, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (whyuan-cc, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Bug Description

  • Title: "Plugin system broken - /plugin shows 'cannot find any marketplace' after working previously"
  • Include: Windows, version 2.0.62, local marketplace was working, suddenly stopped\

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Hey there is a new release of /plugins it looks like (changes in UI) and it completely stopped working for me which causes major headaches. It does not find the marketplace and hence my workflow distributing mcps to different plugins to save context is dead right now...

Environment Info

  • Platform: win32
  • Terminal: cursor
  • Version: 2.0.62
  • Feedback ID: 94026250-4cab-4fe3-a37d-08723ad12344

Errors

[{"error":"Error: Plugin path not found: C:\\Users\\Christian.paul\\Desktop\\figma-bilateral\\.claude\\plugins\\front-heavy-dev\n    at o55 (file:///C:/Users/Christian.paul/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1564:6171)\n    at r55 (file:///C:/Users/Christian.paul/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1564:5721)\n    at async file:///C:/Users/Christian.paul/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1564:14571","timestamp":"2025-12-09T13:37:35.471Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at Gj.makeRequest (file:///C:/Users/Christian.paul/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1283:3940)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)","timestamp":"2025-12-09T13:39:39.689Z"},{"error":"Error: Command failed: C:\\Users\\Christian.paul\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\@anthropic-ai\\claude-code\\vendor\\ripgrep\\x64-win32\\rg.exe --files --glob **/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json --sort=modified --no-ignore --hidden C:\\Users\\Christian.paul\n\n    at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:983:15)\n    at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:537:14)\n    at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:417:12)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1101:16)\n    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5)","timestamp":"2025-12-09T13:42:48.015Z"}]

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16 Comments

github-actions[bot] · 7 months ago

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Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

  1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/13453
  2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/13166
  3. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12174

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whyuan-cc contributor · 7 months ago

Thanks for reporting. Based on my analysis of the error logs, this appears to be a configuration/state mismatch issue

The error Plugin path not found: C:\Users\Christian.paul\Desktop\figma-bilateral\.claude\plugins\front-heavy-dev indicates that:
You have a local directory marketplace registered at C:\Users\Christian.paul\Desktop\figma-bilateral\.claude\plugins

Could you explain if front-heavy-dev is the marketplace or plugin name?

How to fix: Reset and reconfigure

  1. /plugin marketplace remove <marketplace-name>
  2. /plugin marketplace add <marketplace-name>
CPaulBeroe · 7 months ago

@whyuan-cc Thank you for responding, but the suggested workaround does not address the actual problem.

After extensive debugging over 3 days (including multiple crashes caused by Claude Code's own repair attempts), I managed to get the marketplace re-added via /plugin marketplace add. That part now works.

However, the moment I enable any plugin that contains MCPs, Claude Code crashes on startup with this error:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir 'C:\Users\Christian.paul\AppData\Local\claude-cli-nodejs\Cache\C--Users-Christian-paul-Desktop-figma-bilateral\mcp-logs-plugin:full-on-dev:playwright'

The problem: Claude Code constructs MCP log directory names using colons (plugin:pluginname:mcpname).

Colons are illegal characters in Windows file paths (reserved for drive letters like C:).

This is not a configuration issue on my end. My .mcp.json files contain no colons:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"playwright": { ... },
"linear": { ... }
}
}

Claude Code internally adds the colons when constructing the log path.

Impact

My entire workflow is broken. Before v2.0.62, I had 8 plugins organizing ~20 MCPs by task type (dev, research, data, etc.). This allowed me to:

  • Enable only the MCPs needed for a specific task
  • Save 30-50% of context window that would otherwise be wasted on unused tool definitions
  • Switch contexts quickly via the /plugin UI

This workflow worked perfectly until Sunday. Now it's completely non-functional on Windows.
Or am I getting something wrong here?

Root Cause

The plugin system appears to have been developed/tested only on macOS/Linux where colons in paths are allowed. Windows requires a different delimiter (e.g., - or _).

I'm filing a separate issue for this specific bug. But I wanted to flag here that the original issue (#13471) is only partially resolved - marketplace discovery may work now, but plugins with MCPs remain completely broken on Windows.

Crash History

For context, here's what happened trying to fix this:

  1. Crash #1: Claude Code agent wrote unescaped backslashes to JSON config
  2. Crash #2: Cache corruption from incomplete reset
  3. Crash #3: UTF-8 BOM added to JSON files (PowerShell 5.x encoding issue)
  4. Crash #4: The colon-in-path bug (current blocker, requires Anthropic fix)

I have detailed incident documentation if helpful.

Thanks for reporting. Based on my analysis of the error logs, this appears to be a configuration/state mismatch issue The error Plugin path not found: C:\Users\Christian.paul\Desktop\figma-bilateral.claude\plugins\front-heavy-dev indicates that: You have a local directory marketplace registered at C:\Users\Christian.paul\Desktop\figma-bilateral.claude\plugins Could you explain if front-heavy-dev is the marketplace or plugin name? How to fix: Reset and reconfigure 1. /plugin marketplace remove 2. /plugin marketplace add
whyuan-cc contributor · 7 months ago

Apologize for breaking your usage. Thanks for providing the details. Let me investigate and fix this.

ariccio · 7 months ago

Odd, today I'm seeing broken plugins in worktrees too??

whyuan-cc contributor · 7 months ago

@ariccio thanks for reporting. Could you please share more details on what are broken, preferably with logs? Are you also on Windows?

ariccio · 7 months ago

(I'm not sure if this is only in worktrees)
I have several anthropic plugins installed at project level, and now the agents they come with are no longer available. The Errors tab in /agents says:

│                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          │
│ Plugin Errors                                                                                                                                                                                                                            │
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          │
│   ❯ commit-commands@claude-code-plugins                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
│      Plugin 'commit-commands' not found in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                             │
│      → Plugin may not exist in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                                         │
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          │
│   ✘ code-review@claude-code-plugins                                                                                                                                                                                                      │
│      Plugin 'code-review' not found in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                                 │
│      → Plugin may not exist in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                                         │
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          │
│   ✘ feature-dev@claude-code-plugins                                                                                                                                                                                                      │
│      Plugin 'feature-dev' not found in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                                 │
│      → Plugin may not exist in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                                         │
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          │
│   ✘ security-guidance@claude-code-plugins                                                                                                                                                                                                │
│      Plugin 'security-guidance' not found in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                           │
│      → Plugin may not exist in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                                         │
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          │
│   ✘ pr-review-toolkit@claude-code-plugins                                                                                                                                                                                                │
│      Plugin 'pr-review-toolkit' not found in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                           │
│      → Plugin may not exist in marketplace 'claude-code-plugins'                                                                                                                                                                         │
│

claude itself did some debugging, and said something about a corrupted cache?

ariccio · 7 months ago

Extra odd. I asked claude to debug it again so I could share the error it found earlier... and now it's working. No idea what happened, I didn't approve any requests to run anything destructive.

whyuan-cc contributor · 7 months ago

did you restart Claude Code?

whyuan-cc contributor · 7 months ago

@CPaulBeroe we merged a couple of PRs to fix Windows specific issues. Please let us know if tomorrow's build works for you. Thanks

CPaulBeroe · 7 months ago

Will do!

CPaulBeroe · 7 months ago

The issue is fixed, thank you so much @whyuan-cc !

ariccio · 7 months ago
did you restart Claude Code?

Here's what I've been seeing consistently. I need to run /plugins and update each marketplace, then relaunch claude code.

The key thing is that it happens every time I create a new worktree, claude instances launched in the worktree never have proper plugin configs until I update the marketplaces.

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