{"version":"2.1.246","anchor":"backgrounding-a-session-warns-that-running-workflow-subagent","canonical_anchor":"backgrounding-a-session-warns-that-running-workflow-subagent","heading":"Backgrounding a session warns that running workflow subagents restart","tier":"notice","area":"Background Tasks","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246\/e\/backgrounding-a-session-warns-that-running-workflow-subagent","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246","markdown":"### Backgrounding a session warns that running workflow subagents restart\n\nBackgrounding a session now warns that still-running workflow subagents restart from the beginning.\n\n**What**\n\nThe exit-to-background dialog and the fork\/background confirm dialog now count workflow subagents separately and tell you that any still running will restart from the beginning, while finished ones are kept. The confirm button label changes to match.\n\n**Details**\n\n- The count is also reported in telemetry as a new field, `workflow_agent_count`.\n- Appears wherever workflow subagents exist in the session.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`workflow_agent_count`\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}