Artifact publish requests can now pass a deadline field, which is forwarded to the create/update/live-doc publish calls; the publish response can echo back deadline plus a deadlineDropped flag, along with new seq and unchanged fields.
The artifact/live-doc read response schema gains seq and unchanged fields, and (only when a feature gate is on) deadline/deadlineDropped fields, supporting a long-poll style read.
Why
Separating the hot-update flag from the unrelated artifact-types flag means each can be turned on or off independently without accidental interference. The new deadline/seq/unchanged fields lay the groundwork for telling older open copies of a published artifact when to stop and for tracking whether a read actually changed.
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.
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Environment variables touched a line naming deadline after this was published.| `CLAUDE_CODE_WEBFETCH_DEADLINE_MS` | Upper bound in milliseconds on how long [WebFetch](/docs/en/tools-reference#webfetch-tool-behavior) waits for a page to download, including any redirects it follows. A download that hasn't completed b…env-varssee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up deadline, on Claude Code changelog.* Fixed WebFetch hanging indefinitely on a server that keeps the response open without finishing; a fetch now fails after 300 seconds. Set `CLAUDE_CODE_WEBFETCH_DEADLINE_MS` to override the deadline (0 turns it off)changelogsee the edit
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Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtThe finding does not say what the deadline value controls in practice or when `deadlineDropped` would be set.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up deadline, on Claude Code changelog.