Claude Code plugins fail to load over hooks.json shape
Plugins ship hooks.json as an empty array instead of an object, so Claude Code marks financial-analysis and similar plugins as failed to load.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
11 public reports · first reported 26 February 2026 · last reported 14 May 2026
What's going wrong
Several plugins in Anthropic's financial-services marketplace, including financial-analysis, equity-research, wealth-management and private-equity, ship their hooks/hooks.json file as an empty JSON array instead of an object.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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- The products the 11 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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