Claude is now told plainly when artifact watching isn't available, so it stops falsely promising to watch.
tengu_slate_lantern On for this account, and not off by defaultThe flag server returned on for the one account this site reads, and nothing in this release compiles it off by default. The compiled default is shown below, and says which it is when we cannot read one: a fifth of gates compile in a string or a number rather than on or off, and most published releases have no gate table behind them at all. No client can see what the server returns for your account.
This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · compiled default in v2.1.239: on
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.239. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
What's wrong with this entry?
Guidance for watching a published artifact is rebuilt around three states: durable in remote sessions, live when the live-watch flag is on, and none otherwise. The none state tells Claude plainly that nothing will notify it when the artifact is republished and that it must not claim to be watching, which stops false "I'll keep an eye on it" answers.
- The live state is selected by
tengu_slate_lantern, which falls back to off absent a server value;CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTEselects durable; otherwise none. - Durable watching is described as wake-subscriptions held by the artifact service rather than polling by the session.
- Remote sessions persist a durable-watch record (
artifact_durable_watches) holding watch rows, stopped-monitor timestamps and orphaned trigger ids.
artifact_durable_watches
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.