whats-new-marketplace

whats-new

A Claude Code plugin that cross-references release notes against your personal config to surface what actually matters to you.

Instead of reading through every changelog entry, /whats-new scans your ~/.claude/settings.json, hooks, rules, skills, commands, and plugins, then classifies each release note into:

• Impacts Your Config -- changes that directly affect something you have configured
• Recommendations -- new capabilities with a concrete intersection with your setup
• General -- everything else, summarized in one line

Install

Step 1: Add the marketplace

claude plugins marketplace add https://github.com/bradfeld/whats-new-plugin.git

Step 2: Install the plugin

claude plugins install whats-new

Then restart Claude Code to load the new command.

Usage

/whats-new                  Analyze all releases since last reviewed
/whats-new 2.1.83           Analyze a specific version
/whats-new ?                Show help

Since Last Review (default)

Running /whats-new with no arguments checks all releases since the last time you ran it. It tracks the last-reviewed version in ~/.claude/whats-new-last-version.txt.

On first run (no tracking file), it defaults to the last 5 releases.

Specific Version

Running /whats-new 2.1.83 analyzes just that version. This mode does not update the tracking file.

What It Scans

The plugin inventories your Claude Code configuration:

Config Type	Source
Hooks	settings.json hooks + ~/.claude/hooks/*.sh on disk
Env vars	settings.json env keys
Rules	~/.claude/rules/*.md + project .claude/rules/*.md
Skills	~/.claude/skills/ directories
Commands	~/.claude/commands/*.md + project .claude/commands/*.md
Plugins	settings.json enabledPlugins
Other settings	outputStyle, statusLine, permissions, etc.

It then cross-references this inventory against release notes fetched from the Claude Code GitHub releases.

License

MIT