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Claude Code v2.1.234 ·

Background agent failures are labelled with a clearable reason

A stopped background agent now tells you whether it was auth, billing, context limit or model availability.

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You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
4Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background AgentsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.234,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What

When a background agent run stops, its stop reason is now mapped to one of auth, billing, context limit or model unavailable, each with a user-facing label and error code, so a failed run says why it failed. A "credit balance too low" stop is reported as a billing problem.

Details
  • The auth category is deliberately suppressed for remote sessions, where re-authenticating locally would not help.
Evidence

credit balance too low

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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