--watch-artifact
A Claude Code CLI flag, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Your deny and ask rules now apply to artifacts pulled automatically by a watching session.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.233.
In the changelogs
9Releases whose published page names --watch-artifact.
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v2.1.260
--watch-artifact now accepts a short/base58 artifact id directly
--watch-artifact now accepts a short base58 artifact id directly, not just a full URL.
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v2.1.260
Watch-artifact session-start message dedup logic reworked
The watch-artifact session-start message now dedupes across slug variants, not just one slug.
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v2.1.234
--watch-artifactnow fails fast in remote sessionsStarting with --watch-artifact in a remote session now errors immediately and tells you to run it locally.
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v2.1.233
Permission rules now apply to artifacts fetched without a prompt
Your deny and ask rules now apply to artifacts pulled automatically by a watching session.
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v2.1.233
New hidden flag --watch-artifact
A hidden flag lets a session watch an artifact for new versions and comments, with an option to disarm auto-reply.
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v2.1.233
--watch-artifactflag to follow a claude.ai artifact from a sessionA new --watch-artifact flag follows a claude.ai artifact for new versions and comments, but needs account access.
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v2.1.233
Artifact watch priming, failure text and resume stand-down
When artifact watching turns on, Claude is told to re-read the artifact before editing it.
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v2.1.233
Turning off artifact auto-react now survives a restart
Turning off artifact auto-replies now sticks across a background session restart.
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v2.1.233
A model-side stop no longer discards your
--watch-artifactflagWhen Claude stops a monitor itself, your watch-artifact flags stay on the saved command line.
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First cited
6The earliest release whose published evidence quoted --watch-artifact was v2.1.233, 14 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the CLI flag does. All CLI flags.