v2.17.0

v2.17.0

Released 2026-10-02

Claude Code Manager no longer corrupts Claude Code's settings, MCP approvals, sessions or logins, catches up with how Claude Code 2.1.287 stores things, and adds an MCP server catalog and a plugin marketplace browser.

✨ Features

• add servers from a bundled, verified catalog (9cf1e90)
• browse and install plugins from added marketplaces (bbdc415)
• let users replay the welcome tour (08e445d)
• offer /usage when the quota card can't show live figures (cb505f2)
• give the tour a real play control and land links on it centred (cac2cb5)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• stop the extension corrupting Claude Code's config, sessions and logins (e076e95)
• close the remaining half-switched and /login windows (9b40788)
• catch up with how Claude Code 2.1.287 stores and loads things (d7403e2)
• close the review findings on the Claude Code catch-up (aade898)
• re-post the workspace path on every ready handshake (363501e)
• key projects by full path, not folder name (3bd4f3c)
• deliver host settings to tabs opened after startup (bba6675)
• tidy the install view head and the MCP empty-state path (c9907ab)
• keep the modal inside a narrow or short sidebar (eebe82e)

💅 UI / Styling

• biome-format the MCP tab root and shell signals (e76f12b)

📦 Build / CI

• retry marketplace publishes and add a Republish workflow (5366ddb)
• bump @vscode/test-electron to 3.1 so integration tests launch again (61fd8ab)

🔧 Refactoring

• one owner for "does this workspace have its own .claude dir" (683c447)
• drop protocol messages nothing sends or reads (6559960)

Other

• copy(intro): describe what MCP and Plugins can do now (b3568fb)

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Full changelog: 2.16.0...2.17.0