{"version":"2.1.290","anchor":"footer-hint-shows-interrupt-return-to-lead-background-pil","canonical_anchor":"footer-hint-shows-interrupt-return-to-lead-background-pil","heading":"Footer hints now show interrupt and return-to-lead, and background tasks can flag you","tier":"notice","area":"Terminal UI","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290\/e\/footer-hint-shows-interrupt-return-to-lead-background-pil","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290","markdown":"### Footer hints now show interrupt and return-to-lead, and background tasks can flag you\n\nThe footer shows 'interrupt' while Claude works and 'return to team lead' when viewing a finished teammate; background tasks can be marked as needing you\n\n**Unclear.** Whether the 'needs you' marker always appears or only when a particular optional part of Claude Code is present is not settled.\n\n**What**\n\nThe hint line at the bottom of the screen, which used to show only the manage and cycle hints, now says more about what the keys do:\n\n- 'interrupt' appears while Claude is working, so you know a key press will stop it.\n\n- 'return to team lead' appears when you are looking at a teammate that has finished, so you know how to get back to the main agent.\n\n- The small counter showing background tasks can now carry a marker when one of them needs you.\n\n- The artifacts counter can now be selected, and shows highlighted in reversed colours when it is.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe footer now tells you what Esc and the other keys will do in the situation you are in, and a background task waiting on you is easier to spot.\n\n- Area: Terminal UI\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}