{"version":"2.1.293","anchor":"subagents-track-whether-the-owner-can-continue-agents","canonical_anchor":"subagents-track-whether-the-owner-can-continue-agents","heading":"Subagents now record whether their owner can continue agents","tier":"internal","area":"Subagents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.293\/e\/subagents-track-whether-the-owner-can-continue-agents","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.293","markdown":"### Subagents now record whether their owner can continue agents\n\nEach subagent now records whether the agent that owns it has the tools to continue agents\n\n**What**\n\nA subagent is a helper agent Claude starts to handle part of a task. Each one now records whether its owner, the agent that started it, has the tools needed to continue agents. Claude Code works this out from the owner's tools and keeps it updated for subagents it owns.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis relates to continuing agents that run in the background.\n\n- Area: Subagents\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}