{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"agent-handback-pointer-notice-gated-by-tengu-hushed-kestrel","canonical_anchor":"agent-handback-pointer-notice-gated-by-tengu-hushed-kestrel","heading":"Shorter pointer notice when an agent hands work back to itself","tier":"notice","area":"Agents","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/agent-handback-pointer-notice-gated-by-tengu-hushed-kestrel","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Shorter pointer notice when an agent hands work back to itself\n\nWhen a routed agent's single clean handback goes to that same agent, Claude Code can use a short pointer notice instead\n\n**Unclear.** What the pointer notice looks like and when this path is reached are not known.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can pass work to other agents, which are separate AI helpers that take on a task and then hand the result back. When a routed agent makes one clean handback and the recipient is that same agent, Claude Code can now send a short pointer notice instead.\n\nThis sits behind a remote switch, and the code falls back to on when the server sends no value.\n\n**Why**\n\nIt looks like a way to shorten handback messages between agents.\n\n- Flag `tengu_hushed_kestrel`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.285; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: on) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Agents\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}