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Claude Code v2.1.239 ·

Background agents screen rebuilt from one large component into several

The background agents screen was split into smaller pieces; it looks essentially the same to you.

Under the hood Internal Changes
JSON All of v2.1.239
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background AgentsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.239,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

The background agents screen was one roughly 2000-line component and is now a top-level component plus a footer/overlay, an input composer, a layout hook and separate functions for key handling, rename, grouping, delete, reorder and starting or resuming sessions. The visible screen is largely unchanged and everyone on this build gets the new code.

Details
  • The same on-screen text reappears in the new modules, including "Resume a past session", "describe a task for a new session" and "No groups yet — press ctrl+e on a session to tag it."
  • Screen state moved from refs inside the component into stores, and the tree is memoized by the React compiler.
Evidence

[PERF:bg-remount-end]

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

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