---
title: "Visual Plugin Management for Claude Code"
description: "v0.12.0 brings a full Plugin Manager to claude-view — browse, install, enable, disable, and uninstall Claude Code plugins without touching the terminal."
date: 2026-03-09
author: claude-view team
---

Claude Code's plugin system is powerful. But managing plugins has meant memorizing CLI commands, remembering scope flags, and parsing terminal output. v0.12.0 changes that with a dedicated Plugin Manager page in the browser.

## The problem with CLI-only plugin management

If you wanted to see what plugins you had installed, you ran `claude plugin list`. To install one, `claude plugin install <name> --scope user`. To disable it for a single project, `claude plugin disable <name> --scope project`. Every action was a terminal round-trip, and forgetting the `--scope` flag meant operating on the wrong level.

Worse, there was no overview. No way to see at a glance which plugins were active, which were disabled, or which scope each one was installed at. You had to hold that state in your head.

## Plugin Manager page

Open claude-view and navigate to the new **Plugins** page. You see:

- **Health banner** at the top showing overall plugin system status
- **Card grid** of every installed plugin, each displaying name, description, version, scope (user or project), and enabled state
- **Search bar** with debounced filtering to find plugins instantly across large collections
- **Action menu** on each card for enable, disable, and uninstall operations

The card layout gives you the same information density as `claude plugin list` but in a format you can scan in seconds rather than parse line by line.

## Marketplace and installation

Click **Browse Marketplace** to open the marketplace dialog. It lists available plugins you haven't installed yet. Each entry shows the plugin name and description.

When you click install, a **scope picker** appears. Choose user-level (applies everywhere) or project-level (applies only to the current project). The choice is explicit and visible, no more guessing which flag to pass.

After installation, the plugin card appears in your grid immediately. No page refresh needed.

## Scoped actions that actually work

This was a subtle but critical fix. In earlier builds, scope forwarding only worked for the install action. Enabling, disabling, and uninstalling a project-scoped plugin silently operated at the user level, creating confusing states where a plugin appeared disabled but kept running in a project.

v0.12.0 forwards the scope parameter for every action. Disable a project-scoped plugin and it disables at the project scope. Uninstall it and it uninstalls from the project. The behavior matches what you see on the card.

## Under the hood

The Plugin Manager is built on the same architectural pattern as the rest of claude-view: the Rust backend does the heavy lifting, the React frontend renders it.

**Server-side caching.** The backend calls `claude plugin list` and caches the parsed output with a 5-minute TTL using the CachedUpstream pattern. Opening the Plugins page doesn't shell out to the CLI every time. The cache invalidates automatically on any mutation (install, enable, disable, uninstall).

**ANSI stripping.** The `claude` CLI outputs colored text with ANSI escape codes. The server sets `NO_COLOR=1` on the subprocess environment and strips any remaining escape sequences as a safety net. Browser toast messages and error dialogs render clean text, not garbled control characters.

**Type safety.** Plugin response types are defined as Rust structs with `#[derive(TS)]`, generating TypeScript types automatically. The frontend imports from `types/generated/` and never hand-writes API response shapes. When the backend adds a field, the frontend type updates on the next build.

**Scope forwarding.** Every plugin mutation endpoint accepts a `scope` parameter. The backend passes it directly to the `claude plugin <action> --scope <value>` subprocess call. No action silently defaults to user scope.

## Also in this release

- **Mobile:** Expo SDK 55 compatibility with updated react-native-screens and expo-router. Push notifications are platform-gated so they compile cleanly on web. EAS build artifacts are properly gitignored.
- **Registry:** New `invocables_for_plugin` method for querying which tools a specific plugin provides.

## What's next

- **Plugin usage analytics** — track which plugins fire most often and in which sessions
- **Mobile plugin management** — view and toggle plugins from the Expo native app
- **Plugin dependency graph** — visualize which plugins depend on each other

## Update now

```bash
npx claude-view@latest
```

Open the Plugins page from the sidebar. See every plugin you have installed. Try disabling one, then re-enabling it. Browse the marketplace and install something new.
