Artifact comments silently dropped: UI confirms sent, comment never reaches the session

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.260
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Activity 0 comments · opened Sep 7, 2026

Commenting on a published artifact from a Claude Code session shows a sent confirmation, but the comment never arrives in the conversation. The assistant receives the accompanying message with no comment attached and no anchor. Reproduced twice, minutes apart.

Environment: Claude Code 2.1.260, Linux 6.8.0-90-generic. Artifact published from the CLI session.

Steps:

  1. Publish an HTML artifact from a CLI session
  2. Open it at its claude.ai/code/artifact/<uuid> URL
  3. Select text in the rendered page, add a comment
  4. UI confirms it as sent
  5. Send any message in the session

Expected, per https://claude.com/docs/claude-science/comments end it. Pending comments appear above the message box and aresent with your next message." The comment and its anchor should arrive with that message.
Actual: the message arrives with no comment and no anchor. Theit as plain text, which loses the selection that madecommenting useful.

Notes: the commenting capability is present in the artifact runtime - the published page's frame preamble lists a comments module. Comments load dynamically, so fetching the artifact HTML does not surface ththis flow for the web app; if it is not supported forCLI-published artifacts, the UI should not report the comment

Impact: the failure is silent and confirmed-positive. The user believes they have communicated something anchored and specific; the session proceeds without it and neither side can tell.

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