{"version":"2.1.296","anchor":"task-hand-off-apply-now-also-carries-owner-metadata-and-blo","canonical_anchor":"task-hand-off-apply-now-also-carries-owner-metadata-and-blo","heading":"Tasks now keep their owner, metadata and dependencies","tier":"notice","area":"Task List","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296\/e\/task-hand-off-apply-now-also-carries-owner-metadata-and-blo","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296","markdown":"### Tasks now keep their owner, metadata and dependencies\n\nTask owner, metadata and blocks\/blockedBy dependency links now survive task creation, hand-off, compaction and resume\n\n**What**\n\nTasks in Claude Code's task list can record who owns them, extra `metadata`, and dependencies on other tasks (`blocks` and `blockedBy`, meaning \"this task holds up that one\" and \"this task waits on that one\"). Several places that used to drop these fields now keep them:\n\n- Task creation: a task created with `metadata` now keeps it on the stored task.\n\n- Rebuilding the task list from the transcript after compaction (when Claude Code shortens the conversation to save space) or on resume: `owner`, `metadata`, `blocks` and `blockedBy` are now restored through `addBlocks` and `addBlockedBy` updates. Before, `blocks` and `blockedBy` always came back empty. A dependency link is restored only when both tasks agree on it.\n\n- The saved task format now includes `owner`, `blocks`, `blockedBy` and `metadata`.\n\n- Task hand-off: applying a handed-off task now carries `owner`, merged `metadata`, and `addBlocks` \/ `addBlockedBy` links, filtered against task ids already handled. Before, only the description, `activeForm` and status were applied.\n\n- An update that only adds dependency links is no longer skipped.\n\n**Why**\n\nA task list that relies on ordering or ownership no longer loses that structure when the conversation is compacted, resumed or handed off, so tasks that wait on others stay marked that way.\n\n- Area: Task List\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}