You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ArtifactsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.234,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Background Artifact watchers that Claude armed on its own used to never count as active work. Now a watcher counts as active if auto-react is enabled and it is still inside its freshness window, so explicitly requested or freshly armed live watches show up as running; quiet background ones stay invisible.
Details
A separate list filter keeps automatically started watchers out of the visible task list unless the watch was marked as explicitly requested.
This depends on whether auto-react is enabled in the session, not on any build flag.
Evidence
monitor_ws
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
