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Manage multiple agents with agent view
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Exiting a session that still has background work running, such as subagents, background shell commands, workflows, or [monitors](/docs/en/tools-reference#monitor-tool), shows a `Background work is running` dialog instead of quitting immediately. Choose `Move to background and exit` to background the session the same way `/background` does and return to your shell. The option isn't shown when agent view is [turned off](#turn-off-agent-view). +If a background session on the list already has the conversation's name, Claude Code numbers the new row's name, such as `my-session (2)`, and leaves the existing row's name alone. To rename the new row, select it in agent view and press `Ctrl+R`. + #### Copy the session with /fork Run `/fork` to copy the current conversation into a new background session while the original keeps running. The copy starts with everything in the conversation up to that point; see the bullets below for where the copy runs. It also carries over the model, permission mode, effort level, and any directories or "don't ask again" permission grants you added during the session. The copy appears as its own row in agent view.
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| Version | Change | | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | v2.1.247 | On Linux and WSL, a session [whose terminal host process died](#the-terminal-host-died-or-the-session-stopped-responding) fails within seconds with the reason. An open that produces no output ends after about ten seconds with a restart offer, and `Enter` on the row restarts the session with its conversation; `claude attach <id>` reports the cause and exits. Before this release, opening such a session showed `opening… · esc to cancel` indefinitely and `claude attach <id>` waited without reporting an error. | +| v2.1.246 | On an npm installation, when the [background service](#the-supervisor-process) fails to start while `npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code` is replacing the binary, Claude Code waits up to ten seconds for the install to finish and retries before reporting [`EACCES: permission denied`](/docs/en/errors#eacces-when-starting-a-background-session). | +| v2.1.246 | When the [background service](#the-supervisor-process) process dies after printing an error, Claude Code reports the failure and [quotes the service's first error line](/docs/en/errors#background-service-exited-before-it-became-reachable). | +| v2.1.246 | If your machine sleeps while the [background service](#the-supervisor-process) is starting, Claude Code retries the start once instead of failing. | +| v2.1.246 | Claude Code waits about two minutes instead of 45 seconds for a newly started [background service](#the-supervisor-process) that is alive but slow to accept connections. | +| v2.1.246 | The [background service](#the-supervisor-process) starts from your home directory, so on macOS and Linux a starting directory that was deleted or moved no longer blocks the start. | +| v2.1.246 | `/fork` [copies the full conversation](#copy-the-session-with-%2Ffork) from a session that itself started as a copy and hasn't recorded a new prompt since: a `/fork` copy you attached to, a session reattached after `←` or `/background` moved it to the background, or a session started with `claude --resume <id> --fork-session`. Before this release, if you ran `/fork` in such a session before sending it a new prompt, Claude Code printed the normal confirmation but started the copy with an empty conversation. Moving such a session to the background with `←` or `/background` lost the conversation the same way. | +| v2.1.246 | When you open a session you just dispatched while its worker process is still starting, such as by pressing `Enter` on its row, Claude Code waits for the process and then attaches. Before this release, if you pressed `Enter` while the process was still starting, Claude Code could stop the session with [`Session <id> was stopped while the respawn was in flight`](/docs/en/errors#session-was-stopped-while-the-respawn-was-in-flight). | +| v2.1.246 | When you [background](#from-inside-a-session) a named session, Claude Code lists it once, and when you background the same conversation again, it numbers the new row's name, such as `my-session (2)`, with the existing row keeping its name. Before this release, the terminal you pressed `←` in could appear in `claude agents --json` as a second session under the same name, and if you backgrounded the same conversation again, Claude Code added another row under the identical name. | | v2.1.239 | With [vim editor mode](/docs/en/interactive-mode#vim-editor-mode) on, pressing `Esc` in agent view's input switches from INSERT to NORMAL mode and keeps your text, matching the main prompt; in NORMAL mode with text still in the input, pressing `Esc` clears it, and pressing `Esc` on an empty input exits, as the [`Esc` shortcut](#keyboard-shortcuts) describes. Before this release, `Esc` cleared the input. | | v2.1.233 | For a session linked to a GitLab merge request, Claude Code writes the row's label in GitLab's `!1234` reference syntax. You can also paste the merge request's URL into the [dispatch input](#filter-sessions) to select that session. Before this release, the label rendered as `#1234`, and a pasted merge request URL matched a session only when its first prompt contained the URL. | | v2.1.227 | [Deleting a session](#what-deleting-a-session-removes) keeps the session and its worktree while another live Claude Code session is running inside that worktree directory. Agent view shows `not deleted` on the row and the reason in the footer, and `claude rm` prints `kept <id>` with the reason, which names the other session's process ID. Before this release, deleting the session removed the worktree while the other session was still working in it. |