1 00:00:00,140 --> 00:00:01,500 Okay, picture this. 2 00:00:02,260 --> 00:00:05,760 A container build is running at two in the morning, nobody's awake, 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,620 and it needs a plugin that wants an API key. 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:10,320 Where does the key go? 5 00:00:11,042 --> 00:00:12,082 Right, that's the wall. 6 00:00:12,229 --> 00:00:14,482 Until now the answer was a menu. 7 00:00:14,602 --> 00:00:18,802 You'd open /plugin, go to Configure, and type it in by hand. 8 00:00:18,833 --> 00:00:20,473 In a Dockerfile. 9 00:00:20,593 --> 00:00:23,713 Mate, that's like asking a fridge to fill out a form. 10 00:00:24,410 --> 00:00:24,950 Pretty much. 11 00:00:25,530 --> 00:00:28,730 But the 2.1.285 changelog says that's changed. 12 00:00:29,150 --> 00:00:32,510 You can now set a bundled server's own settings at install time, 13 00:00:32,910 --> 00:00:35,410 so it starts without you visiting that Configure screen. 14 00:00:35,538 --> 00:00:38,678 Quick word first, this one's brought to you by Jellypod AI. 15 00:00:39,998 --> 00:00:40,278 Right. 16 00:00:41,318 --> 00:00:42,298 Bundled server. 17 00:00:43,478 --> 00:00:44,558 What's that, exactly? 18 00:00:45,708 --> 00:00:52,428 It's an MCP server packaged inside a plugin, in a file format called dot mcpb. 19 00:00:52,548 --> 00:00:55,708 And the install command takes the config flag now. 20 00:00:55,788 --> 00:01:01,308 You write the server name, a dot, the key, an equals sign, and the value. 21 00:01:01,333 --> 00:01:07,093 So it's like, um, server dot key equals value. 22 00:01:07,333 --> 00:01:09,813 Just stuck on the end of the install. 23 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:10,320 Yep. 24 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,600 One line, no menu. 25 00:01:11,745 --> 00:01:14,185 But how do I know what keys a plugin even wants? 26 00:01:14,785 --> 00:01:18,485 I'd be guessing, and guessing at two in the morning is how I nearly wrecked a 27 00:01:18,525 --> 00:01:19,505 client's site once. 28 00:01:19,625 --> 00:01:20,585 That's the second piece. 29 00:01:20,705 --> 00:01:24,825 The changelog says claude plugin configure, then the plugin name, 30 00:01:24,918 --> 00:01:28,105 shows the plugin's options and which ones are unset. 31 00:01:28,345 --> 00:01:31,945 So you run it, see the gaps, and fill exactly those. 32 00:01:32,042 --> 00:01:34,282 Like a checklist that tells you what you forgot. 33 00:01:34,292 --> 00:01:34,772 Right. 34 00:01:34,792 --> 00:01:36,372 And it can also save values. 35 00:01:36,452 --> 00:01:41,252 The changelog says it reads them from stdin, with the values stdin flag. 36 00:01:41,392 --> 00:01:41,772 Hmm. 37 00:01:42,652 --> 00:01:45,812 Why's stdin better than just typing the value in the command? 38 00:01:46,195 --> 00:01:49,855 That part's my inference, not the changelog's, so take it with a grain of salt. 39 00:01:50,435 --> 00:01:53,655 But anything you type as an argument can land in shell history, 40 00:01:54,135 --> 00:01:55,635 or show up in a process list. 41 00:01:56,155 --> 00:01:59,415 Piping it in, from a secrets manager say, dodges both. 42 00:01:59,500 --> 00:01:59,980 Huh. 43 00:02:00,247 --> 00:02:03,820 So the secret goes down a pipe instead of on the whiteboard. 44 00:02:04,273 --> 00:02:04,973 I'm stealing that. 45 00:02:05,458 --> 00:02:06,498 Now the sneaky bit. 46 00:02:06,658 --> 00:02:08,818 What was the bug they fixed? 47 00:02:08,833 --> 00:02:10,033 Oh, this one's nasty. 48 00:02:10,173 --> 00:02:15,313 The changelog says plugins were silently skipping a bundled dot mcpb server that 49 00:02:15,353 --> 00:02:16,753 still needed configuration. 50 00:02:16,953 --> 00:02:18,153 Silently. 51 00:02:18,273 --> 00:02:18,993 No warning. 52 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,680 So the pipeline goes green, and your tool just isn't there. 53 00:02:22,708 --> 00:02:24,068 Exactly the trap. 54 00:02:24,208 --> 00:02:29,268 Now /plugin, the install message, and the install command all say so, 55 00:02:29,308 --> 00:02:31,348 and point you to Configure. 56 00:02:31,515 --> 00:02:31,795 Good. 57 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:34,735 A loud failure beats a quiet one every time. 58 00:02:34,833 --> 00:02:37,393 And there's an SSH fix in the same release. 59 00:02:37,496 --> 00:02:42,913 Plugin and marketplace installs over SSH were ignoring the ssh program set in GIT 60 00:02:43,073 --> 00:02:47,473 SSH, or in your git config's core dot sshCommand. 61 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:51,740 So if I had a custom key set up, it just, it just went and used the default one? 62 00:02:51,750 --> 00:02:53,350 Basically, it ignored your program. 63 00:02:53,530 --> 00:02:54,870 Now it respects it. 64 00:02:54,875 --> 00:02:55,835 Fair. 65 00:02:55,897 --> 00:02:57,435 Anything else worth grabbing? 66 00:02:57,458 --> 00:02:58,418 Three small ones. 67 00:02:58,525 --> 00:03:02,898 First, an environment variable, CLAUDE CODE DISABLE WEB FETCH, 68 00:03:02,991 --> 00:03:04,498 turns off the WebFetch tool. 69 00:03:04,631 --> 00:03:07,058 Handy if a runner shouldn't be touching the network. 70 00:03:07,083 --> 00:03:08,603 Lock the door from the inside. 71 00:03:08,625 --> 00:03:13,425 Second, background Bash and PowerShell commands now stop after a time limit. 72 00:03:13,515 --> 00:03:18,945 Default is 30 minutes, max is 2 hours, and Claude gets notified when one is stopped. 73 00:03:19,138 --> 00:03:20,478 Oh, that's the zombie killer. 74 00:03:21,418 --> 00:03:23,658 I've left a dodgy process running overnight before. 75 00:03:24,518 --> 00:03:25,018 Not proud. 76 00:03:26,140 --> 00:03:31,200 And third, claude with the desktop flag opens the Claude desktop app on your current 77 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:31,820 directory. 78 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:35,140 Or on a session, if you add continue or resume with an ID. 79 00:03:35,292 --> 00:03:37,372 So terminal to desktop, same spot. 80 00:03:37,375 --> 00:03:38,255 Yep. 81 00:03:38,292 --> 00:03:39,612 Okay, so the two a.m. 82 00:03:39,645 --> 00:03:39,892 build. 83 00:03:39,996 --> 00:03:45,732 Configure command shows the gaps, install with server dot key equals value fills 84 00:03:45,764 --> 00:03:50,692 them, secrets come down the pipe, and if something's missing it actually yells. 85 00:03:50,708 --> 00:03:51,108 That's it. 86 00:03:51,154 --> 00:03:52,308 Nobody has to be awake.