What's new in tl v0.9.10: Claude Code plugin stays current, for real this time

A new tl release is out today: v0.9.10. This one is a small but useful fix for anyone using tl through the Claude Code plugin. If your plugin has been drifting behind the CLI without you noticing, this release catches it up — and makes sure it stays in step from now on.

Run tl setup claude and then restart Claude Code. That’s the whole upgrade path.

What was going on

When you first installed the tl plugin into Claude Code, tl setup claude did the right thing and put the current version on your machine. The catch: on every subsequent run, the same command was quietly a no-op. It reported success, the marketplace listing got refreshed, and the CLI itself kept moving forward with each new release — but the plugin sitting inside Claude Code stayed exactly where it was on day one.

For some users, that meant the skills their AI agent was using were several releases behind the CLI. New prompts, new workflows, and small fixes to existing skills were all sitting on disk, ready to go, but Claude Code was still loading the old copies. Everything looked healthy from the outside, which made the drift particularly hard to spot.

The fix

v0.9.10 changes tl setup claude so that it actually asks Claude Code to update the plugin after installing it. When it moves the plugin to a newer version, it tells you exactly that, and reminds you to restart Claude Code so the new skills load into memory.

tl setup claude

If your plugin has been stuck at an older version, running that command once is all it takes. Close Claude Code, open it again, and your AI agent will be running the latest skills — including everything shipped over the last several releases.

The staleness warning that’s supposed to prompt you when things fall behind is also more honest now: it looks at what Claude Code actually reports as installed, rather than what the CLI thought it installed. So you’ll hear about a lagging plugin before it becomes a mystery.

What this means for your team

If a colleague — an account manager, a researcher, a marketing lead — has been using tl through Claude Code for a while and has been quietly puzzled that their AI agent didn’t have the newest skill or the newest command shape, this release is very likely the reason. Have them run tl setup claude, restart Claude Code, and try again.

Prompts that lean on the more recent skills are the best way to confirm the plugin caught up. A few worth trying on a freshly-updated machine:

• “For [brand], find the ten channels running the highest live eCPM this quarter versus what was projected on the sold date, and put the whole comparison in a Google Sheet I can share with the team.”
• “I’m researching a niche around at-home fitness equipment. Do a deep keyword pass, come back with the boolean expression you settled on, and give me both the trending videos and a channel target list grouped by how central the topic is to each channel.”
• “Take my last sponsorship report and give me a one-paragraph plain-English summary I can drop into an email — no jargon, just what a brand manager needs to know.”

If any of those prompts came back with “I don’t have that skill” or an older-shaped response on a machine you know has been updated, the fix in this release is what you needed.

Updating

If you already have tl installed, tl update picks up v0.9.10 on your next command. Then run tl setup claude once, restart Claude Code, and you’re on the current skill set.

tl changelog shows the full running log of what’s landed since your last release — a handy way to see exactly which skills and workflows the newly-refreshed plugin now gives your AI agent access to.