You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.288,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When Claude starts a command that runs in the background on a remote machine, Claude Code gives it a note about how to follow it. That note used to say the host machine itself, not the output file, tells whether the command is still running. It now says the command is over when the last line of its output file reads [exited with code N] or [stopped <who or what stopped it>]. The note still tells Claude not to use pgrep, ps or pkill to check on it.
Why
This changes how Claude decides that a remote background command has finished, so it can look at the output file instead of asking the host.
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 confirmed that the remote host actually writes these closing lines.
