# How to fork a plugin that's now in core

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**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fork-a-plugin-thats-now-in-core/380926 "2025-08-19T16:57:43Z")\
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If you forked the ai plugin then you can include your fork the way you did before by adding a

```
 rm - rf discourse-ai

```

Before you clone it.

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