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Claude Code v2.1.242 ·

Backgrounded Bash commands now keep a task awake

Waiting on a backgrounded shell command now keeps a task alive, controlled by a remote setting defaulting on.

You'll notice Notable Improvements
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4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.242,
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What

Work parked waiting on a backgrounded shell command is now treated as a live reason to keep the task alive, the same as waiting on a subagent, a monitor or a workflow. Killing a parked agent also cleans up shell tasks it left running. Controlled by the tengu_concurrent_shore remote setting, which defaults to on.

Details
  • Previously only agent:, monitor: and workflow: waiters counted; bash: waiters now do too.
  • Absent any server value the fallback is true, so this is live in this build.
Evidence

tengu_concurrent_shore

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tengu_concurrent_shore Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.242: on

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The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_concurrent_shore

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