Hi there 👋

I'm a new engineer over on the Hardhat team; nice to meet you!

I've been working on a new feature in our artifacts code, and I ran into a bit of a snag with the TypeChain plugin. It looks like one of the private functions I changed is being used in your hardhat plugin:

As a long-term solution, I'll add a public function to my PR that mimics the current functionality of the private version you're using in your task. That public API will be preserved moving forward so we won't run into this issue again :)

Given that we don't want to push breaking code for any existing users, I'll keep the current private method that you're using unchanged, until some time in the future when you've updated to the new function and we can safely deprecate the private one.

I'll make another comment here once my PR has been merged to let you know the name of the public function being added.

Thanks! Let me know if you have any additional thoughts or concerns around this.