{"version":"2.1.288","anchor":"session-ending-detection-excludes-pausedultraplan-tasks","canonical_anchor":"session-ending-detection-excludes-pausedultraplan-tasks","heading":"Some idle background tasks no longer count as keeping a session busy","tier":"notice","area":"Background Tasks","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288\/e\/session-ending-detection-excludes-pausedultraplan-tasks","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288","markdown":"### Some idle background tasks no longer count as keeping a session busy\n\nWhen Claude Code checks for running background tasks, it now ignores paused tasks and agents that are waiting rather than working\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which part of Claude Code uses this check, or what it does with the answer.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code checks whether any background tasks (work that keeps running while you do something else) are still active. That check now ignores:\n\n- paused tasks\n\n- teammates (other agents working alongside the main one) that have no ID they can be resumed from\n\n- remote planning agents (ultraplan) that are waiting for your input\n\n**Why**\n\nThis affects when Claude Code treats a session as still busy. Tasks that are waiting rather than working no longer count.\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}