{"version":"2.1.251","anchor":"background-gate-waits-for-its-own-flag-evaluation-before-dec","canonical_anchor":"background-gate-waits-for-its-own-flag-evaluation-before-dec","heading":"Background gate waits for its own flag evaluation before deciding","tier":"internal","area":"Internals","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251\/e\/background-gate-waits-for-its-own-flag-evaluation-before-dec","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251","markdown":"### Background gate waits for its own flag evaluation before deciding\n\nBackground decisions wait for fresh feature-flag evaluation instead of using whatever was loaded.\n\n**What**\n\nA decision made from a background context now waits, with a timeout, for this process to finish evaluating its own feature flags rather than deciding on whatever was loaded at the time. If the wait times out or errors it falls back to cached flag values and records which happened.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Internal timing and diagnostics only; no setting exposed.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`bg Fable gate: own GrowthBook evaluation not ready`\n\n- Area: Internals\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}