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Watch an Item

Follow one record and get told when something changes on it.

moderate Engagement

What it adds

Per-record change subscriptions, with automatic watching when a user comments or is assigned, and one-click unwatch.

What your agent is told to do

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    Add a watch subscription joining a user to a single record, with a control on the record itself showing current state and the watcher count.

  2. 2

    Auto-watch a user when they comment on, are assigned to, or create a record — then tell them you did it, and make the unwatch obvious.

  3. 3

    Define the exact list of events that notify watchers, and let a watcher mute event types they do not care about while staying subscribed.

  4. 4

    Put an unwatch action inside every notification the subscription generates, so the user can stop it at the moment it annoys them rather than hunting for the record.

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    Do NOT reuse or duplicate Favorites. Favorites is a personal bookmark for finding things again; a watch is a subscription that sends messages. Keep them as separate state with separate controls.

Edge cases it handles

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  • One user action that fires several internal events must produce one notification, not four.
  • A user must never be notified about their own change to a record they watch.
  • Losing access to the record must stop delivery immediately, including for anything already queued.
  • Deleting, archiving, or merging a record needs a defined outcome for its watchers — silently dropping them loses the notification they were waiting for.
  • Watch state belongs to a workspace. The same user in two workspaces must not leak subscriptions between them.
  • A record with many watchers must fan out asynchronously; do not send during the request that made the change.

Definition of done

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  • Any record can be watched and unwatched, with the current state visible on the record.
  • Commenting on or being assigned to a record starts a watch and tells the user.
  • Watchers can mute specific event types without unwatching.
  • Every generated notification carries a working unwatch action.
  • Users are not notified about their own changes and duplicate events collapse into one.
  • Revoked access stops delivery immediately, including queued messages.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

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How it works

  1. 1

    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

  2. 2

    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

  3. 3

    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.