---
title: Download Plugin Version Archive
url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/cli/beta/organization/plugins/versions/download
---

# Download Plugin Version Archive

`$ ant beta:organization:plugins:versions download`

**GET** `/v1/organizations/plugins/{plugin_id}/versions/{version}/content`

Download one version's `.zip` archive, exactly as stored. Each download of a
Plugin from a member's personal plugin marketplace is recorded on the Compliance API
activity feed.

The response body is the archive (`Content-Type: application/zip`), sent as an
attachment whose filename is derived from the Plugin's name; name saved files from
the IDs in the request path, since that filename is not unique.

**Accepted credentials:** an Admin API key with the `read:plugins` or `read:org_audit` scope, or a Compliance Access Key with the `read:compliance_org_data` scope.

Every read scope above (`read:plugins`, `read:org_audit`, and
`read:compliance_org_data`) can download the files of plugins in members' personal
marketplaces, including files that claude.ai's admin settings do not show, and a
`read:org_audit` or `read:compliance_org_data` key created for all of your parent
organization's linked organizations can do this in any organization under it that has
access to this API, by passing `organization_id`. Each such download records a
`claude_plugin_archive_accessed` event on the Compliance API activity feed,
identifying the key, the plugin, the version, and the member. Downloads of
organization-owned plugins are not recorded.

Every request must include the beta header `anthropic-beta: ce-plugins-2026-09-01`. A request without it returns `404`, exactly as if the endpoint did not exist. The Plugins API is in beta and is available to Claude Enterprise organizations only. It is not available to Claude Platform (Claude Console) organizations, or to organizations with HIPAA readiness enabled.

## Parameters

- `--plugin-id: string` (path parameter)

  ID of the Plugin (prefixed `plugin_`).

- `--version: string` (path parameter)

  ID of the Plugin Version (prefixed `pluginver_`). `latest` is not accepted here.

- `--organization-id: optional string` (query parameter)

  For a `read:org_audit` or `read:compliance_org_data` key created for all of a parent organization's linked organizations: a child organization of that parent to read instead of the organization the key was created in, given as the organization's UUID or its `org_`-prefixed ID. A value that is neither returns a 400; an organization that is not a child of the key's parent, or where the Plugins API is not available, returns a 404. Any other key may pass only its own organization's ID here; another organization returns a 404.

- `--beta: optional array of AnthropicBeta` (header parameter)

  This endpoint is in beta: requests must send `ce-plugins-2026-09-01` in this header.

## Returns

- `unnamed_schema_3: file path`

## Example

```bash
ant beta:organization:plugins:versions download \
  --api-key my-anthropic-api-key \
  --plugin-id plugin_id \
  --version version
```