You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
MCPArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.283,
Bug FixesSection of the release
Unclear It is unclear when the background progress reporter exists, so it is not known whether any progress is shown for background calls yet.
What
MCP tools are tools supplied by outside servers, and they can send progress updates while they run. Two changes:
Fix: Claude Code now checks that a progress handler exists before passing an update to it. Before, it checked the wrong thing, so it could call a handler that was not there, or drop progress when no cancel signal was set.
Background progress: each update can now also be passed to a separate reporter for work running in the background, when one is present.
Why
This suggests MCP tool progress will be shown for tool calls that run in the background.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is unclear when the background progress reporter exists, so it is not known whether any progress is shown for background calls yet.
