You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ArtifactsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.248,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
The Artifact tool's instructions now require reading an artifact you only have the URL for before publishing to it. A publish to an artifact this conversation has never read or published is refused, and the refusal returns the current live version so the model can build on it instead of overwriting.
Details
Applies to every session that has the Artifact tool; no setting involved.
Evidence
a publish to an artifact this conversation has not read or published is refused and hands you the live version to build on
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.