{"version":"2.1.288","anchor":"idle-notification-waits-for-background-agents-to-finish","canonical_anchor":"idle-notification-waits-for-background-agents-to-finish","heading":"Idle notification waits until background agents have finished","tier":"notice","area":"Terminal UI","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288\/e\/idle-notification-waits-for-background-agents-to-finish","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288","markdown":"### Idle notification waits until background agents have finished\n\nClaude Code no longer sends its idle notification while background agents are still running, and restarts the idle timer once they finish\n\n**Unclear.** What the idle notification shows you, and exactly which helpers count as background agents, is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code has an idle timer that sends a notification once a session has been idle long enough. When the timer runs out, Claude Code now first checks whether any background agents, helpers working separately on a task, are still running. If they are, it does not send the notification. It waits for them to finish and then starts the idle timer again.\n\nBefore, the notification went out as soon as the time was up.\n\n**Why**\n\nYou should no longer be told a session is idle while helpers are still working in it.\n\n- Area: Terminal UI\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}