Sanity CLI --watchPatterns doesn't seem to be working with wildcards #1139

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Describe the bug

I'm having trouble getting the watchPatterns option for schema extraction to work with wildcards. I want to run sanity schema extract --watch concurrently with my local dev server so the schema and types can update automatically as I work.

To Reproduce

I'm running an embedded sanity studio within a Next.js app. My sanity files are all located at src/sanity with the schema types in src/sanity/schemaTypes. My sanity.cli.ts file is located at the root of my project and looks something like this:

import { defineCliConfig } from "sanity/cli";

export default defineCliConfig({
    api: {
        projectId,
        dataset,
    },
    typegen: {
        enabled: true,
        path: "src/app/**/*.{ts,tsx}",
        schema: "./schema.json",
        generates: "src/sanity/types.ts",
    },
    schemaExtraction: {
        enabled: true,
        watchPatterns: [
          "src/sanity/schemaTypes/**/*.{ts,tsx}",
        ],
    }
});

Steps to reproduce the behavior with this configuration:

1. Start from the command line within a sanity project
2. Run sanity schema extract --watch from the root of the project
3. Modify a file in the src/sanity/schemaTypes directory

Expected behavior

Modifying the file should trigger the schema extraction. Instead the change is not registered.

Which versions of Sanity are you using?

@sanity/cli (global)   6.5.0 (latest: 6.6.0)
@sanity/image-url      2.1.1 (up to date)
@sanity/vision        5.24.0 (latest: 5.27.0)
sanity                5.24.0 (latest: 5.27.0)
@sanity/client        7.22.0 (up to date)

What operating system are you using?

MacOS Tahoe 26.4

Which versions of Node.js / npm are you running?

npm version 11.12.1
node version 26.0.0

Additional context

Things I've tried that did not work:

• watchPatterns: ["src/sanity/schemaTypes/sampleType.{ts,tsx}"]
• watchPatterns: ["src/sanity/schemaTypes/**/*.{ts,tsx}"]

The only thing that has worked:

• watchPatterns: ["src/sanity/schemaTypes/sampleType.ts"] where "sampleType.ts" is a real file in that directory

Security issue?

No discernible security issue.