{"version":"2.1.296","anchor":"background-tasks-foreground-agent-moves-plus-preview-tunne","canonical_anchor":"background-tasks-foreground-agent-moves-plus-preview-tunne","heading":"Groundwork for moving running agents into the background","tier":"soon","area":"Background Agents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296\/e\/background-tasks-foreground-agent-moves-plus-preview-tunne","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296","markdown":"### Groundwork for moving running agents into the background\n\nBackground-task rules can now allow a running agent to be moved into the background, still respecting the block on background agents\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear when moving a running agent into the background is available or how a user triggers it.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code has gained groundwork for moving an agent that is already running in the foreground into the background, where it keeps working while you carry on. An agent here is a helper Claude starts to work on a task.\n\nWhen such moves are allowed, the check for whether background tasks are disabled now also looks at `backgroundAgentLaunchDisabled`, the setting that blocks background agents from launching.\n\nThe preview tunnel, a connection used to show previews, also now counts the bytes and messages it carries.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf you block background agents, that block also covers moving a running agent into the background.\n\n- Area: Background Agents\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}