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ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.260,
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The help text for --kill-session-after-min now clarifies what actually happens at the wall-clock deadline: a session that is idle, parked at a permission prompt, or still starting up is released (paused server-side and resumable) rather than killed. Only a session with a turn still running, or one where the server keeps declining the release, gets SIGTERMed at the hard cap.
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Anthropic's release notes agreeChanged self-hosted runner --kill-session-after-min to release a session that is only waiting on its user (paused, resumable on the next…