Cline desktop 0.0.23 runs Agent Plugins from ~/.agents/plugins and deliberately ignores the workspace copy

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Cline's shared Hub now discovers packages under `~/.agents/plugins`, validates them from `plugin.json`, exposes their valid Agent Skills to the agent, and auto-starts their stdio, Streamable HTTP and SSE MCP servers, with enable/disable managed per plugin in Settings → Customize. The release note states that workspace-level `.agents/plugins` directories are intentionally ignored — a deliberate refusal to let a cloned repository install its own MCP servers and skills, which is exactly the trust boundary GitSpawn crosses through .git/config.