You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Design CommandArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.265,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The /design command now depends on a previewAndHub setting to decide which subcommands are reachable. Local-agent entrypoints explicitly run it with previewAndHub turned off, while the normal interactive path keeps it turned on. With it off, the import, export, and status subcommands, free-form design prompts, and the design canvas skill become unreachable, while consent and revoke (and types, if enabled) remain available.
Why
This limits the fuller Claude Design experience — the canvas, hub, and related import/export/status features — to normal interactive sessions, keeping local-agent sessions restricted to the more basic consent-related functionality.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /design, on Share session output as artifacts.To mock up a UI, a screen flow, a landing page, or a poster rather than build a page, run `/design` with a brief. Claude drafts the design as artboards on one canvas and publishes the canvas as a Design artifact. The brief names what you w…artifactssee the edit
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Claude apps gateway for Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry touched a line naming /design after this was published.| [`/design-sync`](/docs/en/commands#all-commands) and `/design-login` | Not available | Both need claude.ai, which the CLI doesn't contact on gateway sessions, so neither command appears there |claude-apps-gatewaysee the edit
How sure we are
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Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Claude apps gateway for Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry touched a…
