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Claude Code v2.1.273 ·

Task/agent liveness check gains new exclusions

Claude Code's check for whether a running task counts as 'live' now excludes more cases, including certain in-process teammate tasks

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Under the hood

Claude Code's check for whether a running task counts as 'live' now excludes more cases, including certain in-process teammate tasks

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.

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