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New AppifactRepl tool for building artifacts via a JavaScript REPL

A new AppifactRepl tool runs JavaScript against an Artifact's data (a REPL, or read-eval-print loop) but is currently gated off for most users

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AreaArtifact REPLwhat it touches
KindIn Developmentin v2.1.272,
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A new AppifactRepl tool runs JavaScript against an Artifact's data (a REPL, or read-eval-print loop) but is currently gated off for most users

What

  • A new tool called AppifactRepl runs a full Node.js REPL (a read-eval-print loop, meaning it executes a whole JavaScript program and returns the result) against an Artifact's document store, via claude.use("db"), claude.use("files"), and claude.use("assets"), instead of making one Artifact store call at a time. It also supports claude.see() for attaching images or text to the tool's result, and can run a skill's own SDK script instead of the built-in one.
  • Internally it spawns a child process (running node scripts/appifact_sdk.js --repl -) in a sandbox, and its output is scrubbed before being returned.
  • The tool is wired into the permission system, the always-allowed tool list, tool-name resolution caching, and file-read tracking. A permission-check helper adds a special case for it: it is treated as disabled if there is a matching deny rule, or a permission rule whose content is only whitespace or asterisks.
  • Writes made through AppifactRepl do not trigger the automatic artifact-opening behavior that normal file writes do.
  • The tool is gated behind multiple conditions: it only activates when the app is launched with the remote_cowork entry point, an internal flag (tengu_buzzing_lightning, defaulting to false) is enabled, and a further enablement check (isAppifactReplToolEnabled()) whose implementation lives outside the shipped bundle and can't be fully inspected from source.

Why

This is groundwork for a more powerful way to build artifacts step by step with real code instead of individual tool calls, but it is not yet available to regular users: it's gated behind a server-side flag and only activates in the remote_cowork context, so most users won't see or be able to use it yet.

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The writer flagged doubtWhether `isAppifactReplToolEnabled()` defaults to true or false cannot be determined, since its code lives outside this bundle.

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