When a task running in the background loses its owning agent (the agent that started it no longer exists), Claude Code now detects this and automatically stops it, rather than letting it keep running indefinitely. This only happens for tasks that are actually running in the background, have a way to be cancelled, and have already produced at least one successful (non-error) response. Once stopped this way, the task is marked as notified and "quietly parked."
A related change also adjusts how the app decides whether a completed background task still needs to stay alive, based on whether it's backgrounded and not already in another state.
This prevents orphaned background tasks from consuming resources or running forever after the thing that started them is gone, while still preserving whatever useful output they had already produced.
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This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.275: off
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