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Background task output can start with a harness preamble

Under the hood
Useful1 Signal2
Background Tasks

Background task output can carry an extra block of harness text ahead of the task's own output.

What

The tool that returns a background task's output can now print an extra block of harness-supplied text ahead of the task's own output, trimmed and separated from it by a blank line, inside the same output element.

Details
  • Only rendered when the task actually supplies the field; otherwise the output is unchanged.
Evidence

harnessHead

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

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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