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Restarting a background job no longer races a spawn already under way

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Background Tasks

Restarting a background job waits for any spawn already running instead of starting a second.

What

Respawning a background or fleet session now waits for any spawn already in flight for that job rather than starting a second one. If that spawn failed and left nothing running, the respawn stops with the failure reason in_flight_spawn_failed and queues the initial prompt instead of double-spawning.

Evidence

in_flight_spawn_failed

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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