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 v2.1.292,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude can start a command in the background and normally gets a notice when it finishes. Some background commands are stopped when the thing that started them gives its final response, so no notice can arrive.
Before, that case only covered commands started by a subagent (a helper Claude runs to do part of a task) that runs while the main conversation waits. Now it also covers a headless session (one run without an interactive terminal, such as from a script) that takes no more input and is not waiting for background commands.
The separate wording Claude used to see for that session case, "This session takes no further input, though", has been removed.
Why
In headless runs, Claude is told plainly that a background command will not report back, so it does not expect a result that will never come.
