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Combining --bg with --resume now continues that session in the background under the same ID.
The --bg/--background CLI flag's help text now documents that combining it with --resume <session-id> continues that session in the background under the same ID, or starts a copy and reports it when the session is already running, rather than only starting a fresh background session.
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A small documentation edit on Common workflows touched a line naming --resume after this was published.
| [`/loop`](/docs/en/scheduled-tasks) | The current CLI session | Quick polling while a session is open. `--resume` and `--continue` restore unexpired fixed-interval loops. |common-workflows see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up --resume, on Claude Code changelog.
* Improved `--continue` / `--resume`: the conversation appears immediately instead of waiting for SessionStart hooks, and the first message no longer re-reads the whole transcriptchangelog see the edit
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Fixed --resume listing a backgrounded conversation twice and --continue reopening its stalled pre-background copy; --continue now also opens…