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Clearer guidance when an artifact watch hits its cap

The message shown when a session hits its artifact-watch limit now better explains how to make room, favoring republishing over stopping another watch

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Group of 2 You'll notice

The message shown when a session hits its artifact-watch limit now better explains how to make room, favoring republishing over stopping another watch

What

When a session already holds the maximum number of artifact watches (a limit called watch_cap), the error/status messages shown have been reworked to be clearer about what to do next.

  • The message now explains that a new publish can displace an idle watch, but a plain watch request cannot.
  • The comment-watch-can't-resume message was reworded: it now tells you to simply republish (open the session and publish again) as the primary suggestion, with the old advice to explicitly stop watching another artifact demoted to a fallback ("If that's refused too...").

Why

This makes it clearer why a watch request was denied and gives a more useful first suggestion for resolving it, instead of leading with the more disruptive option of stopping another watch.

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