Before spawning a shell command, Claude Code now checks whether the owning agent has a kill pending loop settlement in progress, and refuses to run the command if so instead of executing it.
Shell exec refuses commands for agents with a pending kill-loop settlement
Shell commands are refused while the owning agent has a kill still settling, rather than being run anyway.
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2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.259,
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