backgrounding
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Tools now declare a backgrounding policy; most tools opt out of running in the background
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.277.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names backgrounding.
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v2.1.277
New per-tool "backgrounding" policy field, most tools opt out
Tools now declare a backgrounding policy; most tools opt out of running in the background
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.277
New tool
backgroundingfield controls detach/self/never execution modeTools gain a
backgroundingsetting controlling whether they can keep running in the backgroundnamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.277
Per-tool 'backgrounding' classification rolled out across nearly all built-in tools
Nearly every built-in tool now carries a 'backgrounding' classification of never, self, or detach
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.