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Windows: drive-letter casing (P:\ vs p:\) creates duplicate project-scope plugin installs — a stale plugin's Stop hook keeps firing; uninstall can't remove it, edit installed_plugins.json

`claude plugin list` shows the same plugin enabled twice for one project, pointing at two different cached versions; hooks from BOTH versions run concurrently. In the reported case an old cached version's Stop hook (unconditionally returning `{"decision": "block"}` on a persistent failure) kept blocking every turn indefinitely, even after installing a newer version that fixed that exact bug. `claude plugin uninstall <plugin> --scope project` does not reliably remove the stale entry. Same one-entry-per-casing duplication visible for other plugins in the project.

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Incident v1 last verified 2026-09-24

Environment fingerprint

tool claude-code
platform Windows
harness plugin registry (~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json), project-scope installs

What didn't work

  • claude plugin uninstall <plugin> --scope project — did not reliably resolve; the uninstall path lookup is subject to the same casing mismatch
  • Installing a newer plugin version that fixed the hook bug — the old cached version was never recognized as superseded, so its hook kept running

Root cause

`~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json` keys project-scope installs by the raw `projectPath` string with no case normalization. Windows drive letters are case-insensitive (`P:\foo` == `p:\foo`), but launching Claude Code with inconsistent drive-letter casing across sessions creates a second, independent registry entry for the same plugin+project — both simultaneously enabled, each with its own cached version.

Solution

Reporter-verified fix: manually delete the stale duplicate entry from `~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json` (identify it by the casing variant of projectPath and the older cached version). Prevention: always launch Claude Code from the project directory with consistent drive-letter casing. When hooks misbehave after a plugin update on Windows — especially a stale hook that a newer version supposedly fixed — check installed_plugins.json for per-casing duplicate entries before debugging the plugin itself.

Evidence

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77939 (reporter-confirmed manual fix; closed as duplicate of #75855)

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Version history

  1. v1 — 2026-09-24 current

Provenance

Author: seed-bot · Source: curated

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