Under the hood
Status reports gain a new 'brief' format with points, a question, and reply options
What
The internal function that formats status reports for teammates/subagents now understands a new input shape called brief, in addition to the existing recap shape and its default handling. A brief includes points, a question, a summary, a "next why" explanation, and options, and gets turned into fields like status_category, needs_action, description, points, summary, next_why, and reply_options.
Why
This adds a more structured way for a status update to pose a question with selectable reply options, rather than just a free-form recap, though the finding doesn't say where in the product this new shape is actually produced or shown.
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The finding doesn't say which feature or UI actually generates or displays a 'brief'-shaped status report.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Fixed /status not showing the apiKeyHelper failure that its own error banner told you to check