{"version":"2.1.233","anchor":"auto-reply-guidance-tells-claude-to-check-for-an-existing-an","canonical_anchor":"auto-reply-guidance-tells-claude-to-check-for-an-existing-an","heading":"Auto-reply guidance tells Claude to check for an existing answer before posting","tier":"soon","area":"Artifacts","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.233\/e\/auto-reply-guidance-tells-claude-to-check-for-an-existing-an","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.233","markdown":"### Auto-reply guidance tells Claude to check for an existing answer before posting\n\nAuto-reply guidance now tells Claude to read the thread and resolve rather than duplicate.\n\n**What**\n\nThe follow-up instruction attached to auto-reply notices was rewritten. Claude is now told to read the thread first and skip posting if a Claude reply that already answers the comment stands, then resolve the thread. Same gating as the rest of auto-reply: `CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_COMMENTS_AUTOREACT`, otherwise the `tengu_sorrel_trellis` flag, off by default.\n\n**Details**\n\n- A second wording is used when the automatic reply did post, naming the id of the comment it created.\n- Separate reasons distinguish a reply that already stands from one posted by another session.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`a reply already stands in the thread`\n\n- Flag `tengu_sorrel_trellis`: Off by default, switched on for this account (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.233; 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: Artifacts\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT_COMMENTS_AUTOREACT`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}