Task
A Claude Code tool, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Tools gain a backgrounding setting controlling whether they can keep 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
8Releases whose published page names Task.
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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 backgroundfound 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
found in this entry's text
- v2.1.63
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v2.1.63
Task Tool Renamed to Agent
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.3
Custom Keybindings Support
found in this entry's text
- v2.0.74
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v2.0.74
Teammate/Swarm Feature Removed
found in this entry's text
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v1.0.45
Agent System Enhancement
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
2Build by build
265One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
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 tool does. All tools.