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Housekeeping tasks are flagged so hosts can keep them out of activity indicators

Under the hood
Useful2 Signal3
Background Tasks

Housekeeping tasks carry an ambient marker so hosts can keep them out of activity spinners.

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.

Related

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

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