{"version":"2.1.234","anchor":"artifact-comment-auto-reply-gets-a-settling-window-and-a-sta","canonical_anchor":"artifact-comment-auto-reply-gets-a-settling-window-and-a-sta","heading":"Artifact comment auto-reply gets a settling window and a stand-down, both server-gated","tier":"soon","area":"Artifacts","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.234\/e\/artifact-comment-auto-reply-gets-a-settling-window-and-a-sta","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.234","markdown":"### Artifact comment auto-reply gets a settling window and a stand-down, both server-gated\n\nArtifact comment replies get grouped wakes and a stand-down when everything was already answered, both switched off.\n\n**What**\n\nThe scheduler that decides when Claude scans and answers comments on an artifact was reworked so that repeated wakes are grouped together instead of each triggering a scan. Wakes can now be tagged as confirmations or re-entries and are coalesced within a settling window, timers carry extra padding, and the fast-acknowledge flag can be refreshed against a deadline before a decision is made. Alongside it sits a stand-down path that skips replying when every comment addressed to Claude was already answered in a visible turn, and neither the window override nor the stand-down is switched on by anything in this build.\n\n**Details**\n\n- The settling window defaults to 2000 ms, can be overridden per call, and can be overridden remotely by the `tengu_sorrel_trellis_finial` server flag, whose value is clamped to a maximum.\n- The stand-down branch requires the `tengu_madrone_spindle` server flag to be exactly true and additionally requires every comment recipient to individually pass a check, so it does nothing unless a server config enables it.\n- When the stand-down does fire it records `stood_down_visible_turn`, which is the string to watch for if the flag is ever turned on.\n- Neither flag has a value set anywhere in the shipped build, so the handoff branch stays off and the wait falls back to the built-in 2000 ms.\n- The instructions Claude receives for handling these comments gained a new label for where a comment came from, \"human, posted by the artifact\".\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`stood_down_visible_turn`, `tengu_madrone_spindle`\n\n- Flag `tengu_madrone_spindle`: Gate removed from the code (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.234; this account: on, anonymous baseline: on, compiled default: not a boolean we can read)\n- Area: Artifacts\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}