{"version":"2.1.274","anchor":"artifact-watch-tool-distinguishes-a-new-live-watch-mode","canonical_anchor":"artifact-watch-tool-distinguishes-a-new-live-watch-mode","heading":"Artifact watch tool gains a 'live' mode distinct from 'durable'","tier":"notice","area":"Artifacts","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274\/e\/artifact-watch-tool-distinguishes-a-new-live-watch-mode","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274","markdown":"### Artifact watch tool gains a 'live' mode distinct from 'durable'\n\nThe artifact watch tool now supports a 'live' watch mode alongside 'durable', with reworded messaging about what watching does\n\n**Unclear.** The finding does not say what distinguishes 'live' watching from 'durable' watching in practice, beyond the unwatch description.\n\n**What**\n\nThe artifact watch tool's internal checks now branch on a third mode, `live`, in addition to the existing `durable` mode (and a default\/off state). This changes:\n\n- The permission-ask messaging shown when enabling watch, which now accounts for the `live` mode.\n\n- The description shown for `unwatch` when live watching is active: it now says unwatching \"stops keeping track of new versions published elsewhere\" instead of the old wording about \"republish notifications and, in cloud sessions, comment wakes.\"\n\n- The general help text for watch\/unwatch\/status, reworded from describing \"notify\" semantics to describing that Claude Code \"keeps track of new versions,\" and clarifying that a republish elsewhere \"starts no turn and sends no notification\" in live mode.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis distinguishes a lighter-weight \"live\" tracking mode from the existing \"durable\" watch mode and corrects the tool's description so it no longer overpromises an active notification, matching the new passive version-tracking behavior.\n\n- Area: Artifacts\n- Names: `live`, `durable`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}