{"version":"2.1.235","anchor":"background-exit-handoff-can-be-disabled-by-environment-varia","canonical_anchor":"background-exit-handoff-can-be-disabled-by-environment-varia","heading":"Background exit handoff can be disabled by environment variable","tier":"use","area":"Background Tasks","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.235\/e\/background-exit-handoff-can-be-disabled-by-environment-varia","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.235","markdown":"### Background exit handoff can be disabled by environment variable\n\nCLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BG_EXIT_HANDOFF now requires the variable to be unset, giving a cleaner escape hatch\n\nThe predicate that decides whether background work gets handed off to the next process on exit now requires `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BG_EXIT_HANDOFF` to be unset before allowing handoff. Setting the variable disables the handoff behavior described previously for backgrounded work on process exit, restart, or update.\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BG_EXIT_HANDOFF`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 5\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}