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Idle goal check-ins stop after three per turn

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal3
Background Tasks

Background goal check-ins stop after three per turn and resume when you send a message.

What

The background check-ins that wake Claude to review progress on a goal are now capped at three between your messages. At the cap the summary is marked "idle check-ins paused until your next message" and the model is told no further wake-ups will happen. Sending a message resets the count.

Details
  • The limit is a fixed constant of 3; there is no setting to change it.
  • At the cap the timer is only re-armed rather than firing, and the cap is recorded in telemetry.
Evidence

\xB7 idle check-ins paused until your next message

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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