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Claude Code v2.1.251 ·

Only main-loop sessions hold a live artifact watch

Only your main session holds a live artifact watch; subagents and background sessions do not.

You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.251
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
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.251,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

The artifact watch tool description now spells out that a live watch is held only by an interactive or SDK main-loop session. Publishing or calling watch from a subagent, teammate, background, or print session arms no live subscription at all.

Evidence

only an interactive or SDK main-loop session holds one — a subagent, teammate, background, or print session's publish or 'watch' arms none

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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