Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.247,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Task events now carry an ambient marker for work Claude Code does not present as yours, and the SDK task shape exposes it. Hosts that show a spinner or activity light can filter these out.
Details
Set for every task that skips the transcript, plus automatically started live-update watchers.
Emitted both on task telemetry and in the SDK schema, whose description tells hosts to exclude them.
Unconditional.
Evidence
True for housekeeping tasks the CLI does not surface as user work (every skip_transcript task, plus auto-started live-update watchers); hosts should exclude them from activity indicators.
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
