{"version":"2.1.221","anchor":"comment-replies-always-ask-and-the-prompt-names-who-will-see","canonical_anchor":"comment-replies-always-ask-and-the-prompt-names-who-will-see","heading":"Comment replies always ask, and the prompt names who will see them","tier":"soon","area":"Permissions","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221\/e\/comment-replies-always-ask-and-the-prompt-names-who-will-see","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.221","markdown":"### Comment replies always ask, and the prompt names who will see them\n\nReplying to an artifact comment always asks first, and tells you whether the artifact is shared.\n\n**What**\n\nReplying to an artifact comment can never be auto-allowed, and the confirmation states the artifact's sharing state so the audience is clear before posting.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Permission for `reply` returns behavior \"ask\" with `suppressAlwaysAllowRule`, so no always-allow rule can be created.\n- Before prompting, the artifact's share mode is probed; the message says whether the artifact is shared, falling back to share-status-unconfirmed wording when the probe fails.\n- Reading comments is allowed without a prompt, except when the read was triggered by a new-comments notification, which forces a prompt.\n- Behind the artifact-comments gate (`CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_COMMENTS` \/ `tengu_teal_corbel`).\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`Posting a comment reply visible to other viewers requires confirmation`\n\n- Flag `tengu_teal_corbel`: Off by default, switched on for this account (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.221; this account: on, anonymous baseline: on, compiled default: off) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Permissions\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_COMMENTS`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}