{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"background-task-result-note-gated-by-tengu-tidy-sloth","canonical_anchor":"background-task-result-note-gated-by-tengu-tidy-sloth","heading":"Claude is told background results arrive only while it is still working","tier":"notice","area":"Background Tasks","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/background-task-result-note-gated-by-tengu-tidy-sloth","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Claude is told background results arrive only while it is still working\n\nClaude is now told that a background task's result reaches it only if the task finishes before Claude gives its final response\n\n**What**\n\nA background task is a job that keeps running while Claude carries on with other work. Claude Code now has a message telling Claude that such a task's result reaches it only if the task finishes while Claude is still working. The task is stopped when Claude gives its final response, and nothing can follow that.\n\nThe setting that controls this note is on unless it is switched off remotely.\n\n**Why**\n\nClaude should not finish its answer expecting a background task to report back later, because the task is stopped at that point.\n\n- Flag `tengu_tidy_sloth`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.292; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: on) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}