Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.273,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code has an internal function that decides whether a running or pending task should still be treated as 'live' (active). It now also treats a task as not-live when a new condition is true, and specifically for tasks of type in_process_teammate where evictAfter is 0, there's no currentWorkAbortController, and another new condition holds.
The handling of the 'ambient'/monitor_ws case was also simplified to always report not-live, instead of delegating that decision elsewhere.
Why
This tightens up which tasks Claude Code considers still active, which affects things like whether a task shows as running or gets treated as finished/evicted.
