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Artifact tool gains a document database, off by default

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Artifacts Notable not in their notes

Published artifacts can gain a document database Claude reads and writes, off unless you set the env var.

read_db and write_db actions sit behind CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_DB and a remote gate that falls back to off.

Feature flag
tengu_umber_lattice Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.224: on

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CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_DB
What

The tool that publishes artifacts can now read and write a published artifact's document database, through two new actions read_db and write_db. Reads take a db_op of get, list or query; writes take set, update or delete, addressed by collection and doc_id. The actions only appear in the tool's schema when the tengu_umber_lattice gate is on (source fallback is false, real value from remote config) or the CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_DB environment variable is set.

Details
  • A collection is a path of 1 to 31 slash-separated segments (letters, digits, _ - . ~ : @ + per segment), so subcollections nest like boards/b1/columns; doc_id is a single segment. There are byte caps on the composed document path and on serialized data.
  • Queries support where comparators including the Firestore-style array-contains, plus order_by, limit and cursor; list results page through a cursor.
  • Rows read back are wrapped in a === BEGIN ARTIFACT DB fence and labelled as collaborator-written data, not instructions, and the read-consent prompt warns that collaborator-written rows will be read into the conversation.
  • Prompts flag ownership: a suffix of "(someone else's artifact)" or "(ownership unconfirmed)" and a shared-with note, and the consent prompt says the database is written by its collaborators when a share probe fails.
  • Consent is recorded per artifact for the session, once for reads and once for writes, with separate handling in plan mode and for notification-triggered reads.
  • Transcript lines render as "read database" and "write database"; verbose mode shows the target document and share status on writes.
  • Backend errors are normalised to a fixed set (not found, invalid argument, quota or rate, busy, upstream auth, store unavailable, not declared) each with a human remedy.
  • Read is treated as read-only and safe to run concurrently; write is not.
Evidence

Read a published artifact's database \u2014 collaborator-written rows will be read into the conversation, Database operation: 'get', 'list' or 'query' for read_db; 'set', 'update' or 'delete' for write_db. Required for both database actions; meaningless for every other action., database write committed, CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_DB, Database collection path: 1-31 "/"-separated segments (letters, digits, _ - . ~ : @ + per segment), so subcollections nest like "boards/b1/columns". Required for read_db and write_db.

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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