{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"background-task-telemetry-now-records-local-agent-details","canonical_anchor":"background-task-telemetry-now-records-local-agent-details","heading":"Background task usage data now describes how subagents were launched","tier":"internal","area":"Telemetry","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/background-task-telemetry-now-records-local-agent-details","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Background task usage data now describes how subagents were launched\n\nUsage data about background tasks now records details of how a local subagent was started\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code sends usage data, called telemetry, about background tasks. For tasks that are local subagents (helper agents running on your machine), it now also records:\n\n- the agent's type\n\n- whether it is a built-in agent\n\n- whether it came from a forked skill\n\n- whether the main conversation started it directly\n\n- whether it was launched with default settings and no working folder of its own\n\n**Why**\n\nIt shows what Anthropic measures about how subagents are launched.\n\n- Area: Telemetry\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}