You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.286,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
A background session is a Claude Code session started with claude --bg that keeps working without you watching it. When one could not start because it was blocked, Claude Code used to report only that it was blocked. It now also gives the cause:
A disclaimer that has not been accepted.
The result of the workspace trust check, which asks whether you have agreed to trust the folder.
The trust check also no longer treats certain paths that reach the same place through a symlink (a file shortcut) as the same folder.
Why
Errors and usage reports for claude --bg can now name the exact reason a session was refused.
Read from
Names in the bundleclaude --bg
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 not clear whether the symlink change to the trust check makes any difference you would see.
Anthropic's release notes agreeWindows: Fixed claude --bg and the agents view refusing a folder that claude already trusts when its trust record was saved with different…
