{"version":"2.1.221","anchor":"artifacts-gain-comment-thread-reading-and-replying","canonical_anchor":"artifacts-gain-comment-thread-reading-and-replying","heading":"Artifacts gain comment-thread reading and replying","tier":"soon","area":"Artifacts","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221\/e\/artifacts-gain-comment-thread-reading-and-replying","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221","markdown":"### Artifacts gain comment-thread reading and replying\n\nThe artifact tool gains comments and reply actions with terminal rendering, though whether they're live is unresolved.\n\n**What**\n\nThe artifact tool has new `comments` and `reply` actions, with a schema carrying `threads` and `threads_dropped`, tool-result text for the empty and degraded cases, and terminal renderers for thread counts and replies.\n\n**Details**\n\n- `comments` is read-only and concurrency-safe; `reply` posts back to a thread\n- the empty case tells you viewers add threads from the artifact page in comment mode\n- `threads_dropped` covers the degraded case where not every thread came back\n- gated behind the artifact tool's own isEnabled check, which was not traced to a specific flag, so the live state here is unresolved\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`No comment threads on this artifact yet. Viewers add them from the artifact page (comment mode).`\n\n- Area: Artifacts\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}