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Claude Code v2.1.238 ·

Groundwork for sparing some agents from a stop cascade

Stopping one agent still stops them all, though the code to spare some is now present.

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Each agent is tested against an exemption rule list before being killed, but nothing ever adds a rule, so none are spared.

What

Stopping an agent still stops every other running agent with it. New in this build is the machinery to exempt some of them: each other agent is tested against a list of exemption rules and, if exempt, added to a "spared" list instead of being killed. Nothing in this build ever adds a rule to that list, so no agent is ever spared and stops cascade exactly as before.

Details
  • The exemption list lives on the shared registry of running agent tasks; the bundle contains its declaration and one place that reads it, and nothing that writes to it.
  • The spared list is announced through a cascadeSpared event that nothing in the build listens for.
  • There is no flag or setting; the feature is inert because the rule list is empty.
Evidence

cascadeStopExemptions

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

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