You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ArtifactsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.238,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Interrupting background artifact activity now says watches and auto-replies are paused rather than stopped, in both the guidance Claude gets after an interrupt and the /watches listing.
Details
The long paragraph explaining that republishing re-arms a stopped watch was reduced to "Do not republish just to re-enable auto-replies unless the user asks."
Evidence
with auto-replies paused or stopped and no connection
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.