{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"background-task-visibility-reworked-behind-a-new-gate","canonical_anchor":"background-task-visibility-reworked-behind-a-new-gate","heading":"Background task handling now depends on a new switch","tier":"internal","area":"Background Tasks","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/background-task-visibility-reworked-behind-a-new-gate","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Background task handling now depends on a new switch\n\nHow Claude Code shows, counts and clears background agent tasks now depends on a new switch\n\n**Unclear.** What this switch is, what it falls back to, and whether it is on for anyone is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nSeveral parts of how Claude Code handles tasks now depend on a new switch:\n\n- removing finished tasks\n\n- deciding which tasks count as running in the background\n\n- showing task notifications\n\nWith it, agents that are running or waiting but not in the background, and finished agents kept alive for an unusual reason, are handled differently.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is likely to change how foreground and background agent tasks are shown or cleared.\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}