You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ArtifactsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.229,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The Artifact tool's list action used to require a one-time confirmation per session, with separate prompts for the shared and all scopes. That branch is gone and listing is permitted outright as a read-only action in every scope.
Evidence
Listing artifacts published by or shared with the user is a read-only action
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.