Hosted watch

Needs gander signup. These commands are hidden from gander --help until a token is saved.

Hosted watch is the product loop: a short gander.md link that updates on every save, for a reviewer who is not in your IDE. It needs signup. gander watch is an alias for gander share --watch.

gander watch plan.md

The CLI uploads the file, prints https://gander.md/s/…, and keeps pushing new HTML on save (through the same runner that local watch uses, plus the API). Send that URL. The reviewer needs a browser, not Gander.

If you only wanted a one-shot snapshot with no live updates, use gander share plan.md instead. See Share.

Local vs hosted

# CLI only - stays on this machine
gander plan.md --watch

# Signed up - live gander.md link for a reviewer
gander watch plan.md

gander --watch is local preview. gander watch is the hosted review loop. They do not share a URL. Local watch cannot accept comments. Hosted watch can, subject to visibility and commenting.

Flags

The same policy flags as share apply here. On first upload, defaults are visibility anyone and commenting private (author and team). Later saves omit a field unless you pass the flag, so a watch loop will not reset a private or disabled share.

gander watch plan.md --private
gander watch plan.md --visibility=hidden
gander watch plan.md --comments anyone
gander watch plan.md --comments private
gander watch plan.md --no-comments
gander share plan.md --watch

Anyone-commenting requires anyone-visibility. Full policy notes: Visibility.

Agent round-trip

Watching the file is not enough for the agent to hear review. Install MCP once so @agent comments land in the session:

gander mcp install

If MCP is not available, gander comments is the fallback. See MCP and Comments.