watch
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Artifact reviewer comment text is no longer kept in stored transcripts, and blanket allow rules skip several artifact actions.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.221.
In the changelogs
16Releases whose published page names watch.
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v2.1.274
Artifact 'watch' tool distinguishes a new 'live' watch mode from 'durable'
Artifact watch tool adds a 'live' watch mode distinct from 'durable' watching
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v2.1.274
Artifact watch wording clarified: no turns, no notifications from new versions
Artifact watch messages now clarify that new versions don't start a turn or send a notification
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v2.1.271
fs.watch reliability probe: built, no in-bundle caller found
A new fs.watch reliability probe module was added to the bundle, but nothing calls it yet
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v2.1.269
New 'bashEditDiff' snapshot/diff tracking system for the Bash tool, gated by config/env
New 'bashEditDiff' system snapshots the repo around Bash commands to track what they changed, controlled by an env var or config
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v2.1.265
Watch tool refuses to (re)start a watch after an unapproved comment-reply ask in the same session
Claude Code won't retry starting an artifact watch after you already declined a related reply request in the same session
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v2.1.265
Watch tool can now auto-allow a no-op watch that 'arms no replies'
Watching an artifact that doesn't need reply permission is now auto-allowed without asking
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v2.1.257
Artifact comments/watch tool renames its action vocabulary
Artifact comment actions are respelled: read replaces comments, watch with on false replaces unwatch, and old names now error.
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.246
Artifact delete summaries name the artifact, and watch wording is clearer
Deleting an artifact now names it in the summary, and watch wording is clearer.
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v2.1.242
Artifacts built from a type reject live files
Publishing a type-based artifact with live files is now refused immediately with a clear message.
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v2.1.236
Artifact watch text now says when comment replies are not armed
Watch documentation now says comments only reach you when auto-replies are armed.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.235
Design tool: an approved database read/write is now bound to the exact action and project slug
Design tool database read/write consent is now bound to the exact approved action and project slug
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v2.1.235
Artifact consent is pinned to the exact action and slug that were approved
Artifact tool approvals are now pinned to the exact action and slug approved, closing a swap-after-approval hole
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v2.1.234
Resuming stopped artifact auto-replies, and marking comments the artifact posted itself
Comments Claude posts to an artifact are now marked as its own, so it stops replying to itself.
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v2.1.227
Watching an artifact from a remote session now wakes it instead of streaming
In remote sessions, watching an artifact wakes you on publish instead of streaming live updates.
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v2.1.221
Artifact tool: replies validated, and comment text stripped from stored transcript
Artifact reviewer comment text is no longer kept in stored transcripts, and blanket allow rules skip several artifact actions.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.186
Shell Variable Tracking: More zsh Variables Covered
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First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
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 settings key does. All settings keys.