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Fork-worker agents now excluded from background-task UI and controls

Fork-worker agents no longer show up as killable background tasks or as SendMessage handback targets

TierUnder the hoodhow much it should matter to you
Useful1my rating, 1 to 5
Signal1worth watching, 1 to 5
AreaBackground Taskswhat it touches
KindInternal Changesin v2.1.271,
Under the hood

Fork-worker agents no longer show up as killable background tasks or as SendMessage handback targets

What

Agents marked with forkWorker === true are now explicitly excluded from several checks that decide whether an agent counts as a visible, killable background task, or as a candidate for handing control back to a parent agent via SendMessage.

Why

This keeps internal fork-worker agents out of the background-task list and controls meant for regular agents, so users only see and manage the agents they'd actually expect to.

How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed cross-session messages held by the receiving session's permission-mode policy leaving no trace: headless senders now get a delivery…

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