# Keep the plugin updated

The plugin ships improvements weekly. Two chat phrases cover most of what you need:

- **"What's new in mixshift?"** shows the changes since your installed version.
- **"Update the mixshift plugin"** walks you through the update for your surface and then tells you if anything needs a follow-up step. It compares the build this session is running against the build installed on your machine, so "the update landed, you just need to relaunch" is told apart from "the update did not land."

## Manual update, by surface

- **Claude Code:** run `/plugin marketplace update mixshift`, then `/plugin update mixshift-ai`.
- **Cowork (personal install):** open the **Directory** view, find the MixShift marketplace, open the three-dot menu, and choose **Check for updates**. If you turned on **Sync automatically** at install time, updates arrive on their own.
- **Cowork (organization install):** your org admin republishes; each seat picks it up.
- **Claude admin console:** re-upload the release zip, or nothing at all if your admin set up the auto-syncing private mirror.

## The one rule everyone forgets

**A running session keeps the version it started with.** Starting a new chat or session is not enough on its own. Fully quit the application, then relaunch it, so the updated build is the one that loads. If the old version still shows after a full quit and relaunch, an earlier copy of the application is usually still running in the background and still serving the old build; close that one too. If skills behave oddly right after updating, this is almost always why.

## Good to know

- The stable channel is the tested weekly cut; release notes live on [the releases page](/releases).
- In Cowork, the version label in the plugin panel sometimes lags after an update. If it looks stale, remove and re-add the marketplace entry; your settings and sign-in survive.

## Related

- [Install the plugin](/knowledge-base/plugin/getting-started/install-the-plugin)
- [Troubleshooting](/knowledge-base/plugin/troubleshooting/troubleshooting)