Under the hood
The Bash prompt's Monitor-tool tips are now conditioned on capability and background-task support checks.
The Bash tool's system-prompt guidance about not polling or sleeping and instead using the Monitor tool for background processes is now conditioned on a capability check plus a background-task-support check, refining when these tips are shown.
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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
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A small documentation edit on Run Claude Code behind a corporate launcher touched a line naming Monitor after this was published.
With a launcher configured, `ps` and Activity Monitor no longer show Claude Code's `claude bg-pty-host` and `claude bg-spare` labels for the background helper processes, because the launcher's `exec` rebuilds the argument list. Losing the …corporate-launcher see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up Monitor, on Claude apps gateway configuration.
The CLI sends metrics, logs, and, when enabled, traces to the gateway, which relays them verbatim to each configured destination. The exports use OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) over HTTP. To skip the relay and have sessions export straight …claude-apps-gateway-config see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up Monitor, on Claude apps gateway configuration.