diff --git a/recorder/src/main/kotlin/com/engine/protoc/util/recorder/Main.kt b/recorder/src/main/kotlin/com/engine/protoc/util/recorder/Main.kt
index d0d6f38..4c6cc19 100644
--- a/recorder/src/main/kotlin/com/engine/protoc/util/recorder/Main.kt
+++ b/recorder/src/main/kotlin/com/engine/protoc/util/recorder/Main.kt
@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@ public fun main() {
     PluginProtos
         .CodeGeneratorResponse
         .newBuilder()
+        /* protoc fails compilation if a plugin does not support all features in the current fileset.
+         * since this plugin's job is to pass _all_ information directly to disk, we should always support all features.
+         * note: this does not use "options" to control which features to support for 2 reasons:
+         * 1. using an option would require this plugin to parse the input
+         * 2. we want customers of the plugin to be able to set their options to be passed to their plugins, and using our own options interferes with that goal.
+         */
+        .setSupportedFeatures(
+            PluginProtos.CodeGeneratorResponse.Feature.entries.fold(0L) { acc, feature ->
+                acc.or(feature.number.toLong())
+            },
+        )
         .addFile(
             PluginProtos.CodeGeneratorResponse.File.newBuilder().apply {
                 name = "code-generator-request.binpb"