{"version":"2.1.251","anchor":"watch-a-published-artifact-for-republishes-and-comments","canonical_anchor":"watch-a-published-artifact-for-republishes-and-comments","heading":"New artifact watch tool actions: watch\/unwatch\/status\/resume_replies","tier":"use","area":"Artifacts","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251\/e\/watch-a-published-artifact-for-republishes-and-comments","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251","markdown":"### New artifact `watch` tool actions: watch\/unwatch\/status\/resume_replies\n\nClaude can watch a published artifact for republishes and comments, asking you first.\n\nA new tool (built from object `bu`, wired into the tool table as `wi.watch`, `wi.unwatch`, `wi.resume_replies`, `wi.watches`) lets Claude watch a published artifact for republishes and comments, stop watching, check watch status, and resume previously-stopped automatic comment replies.\n\nIt has extensive permission logic: it denies resuming auto-replies entirely in remote sessions (\"Resuming auto-replies is a live-session action... use action \"watch\" to re-register one\"), denies it if the user disarmed auto-replies session-wide (\"the kill-all-agents gesture\"), and asks for explicit user confirmation the first time an artifact is watched or when auto-replies would be turned on.\n\nA new validator also rejects `watch` action calls that specify a path not resolvable to a live file, returning a dedicated invalid-path error instead of silently accepting it.\n\n- Area: Artifacts\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 5\/5"}