Claude Code Adds Owner-Wildcard Marketplace Controls, Letting One Rule Allow or Block an Entire GitHub Org

An allowlist policy nobody can keep up with is effectively no policy at all — owner wildcards solve exactly the problem of rules falling behind an organization's growth.

Grace Lindqvist · August 14, 2026

A recent Claude Code update gives administrators finer-grained Plugin marketplace controls: through the strictKnownMarketplaces managed setting, admins can now use an owner-wildcard form to allow or Block every marketplace repository under a given GitHub organization with a single rule, instead of listing each repository name individually. Alongside this, a new Plugin distribution method called archive has been added, letting a plugin be installed by downloading a zip file over HTTPS — no...

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