{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"background-agent-checkpointresume-notices","canonical_anchor":"background-agent-checkpointresume-notices","heading":"New messages for background agents that were paused and not resumed","tier":"notice","area":"Background Tasks","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/background-agent-checkpointresume-notices","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### New messages for background agents that were paused and not resumed\n\nClaude Code now says when a paused background agent could not be resumed, or was not resumed and can be resumed by messaging it\n\n**What**\n\nA background agent is a helper agent that keeps working while you do other things. Claude Code can save a checkpoint of one, a snapshot of where it was, so it can continue later. There are two new messages for agents that were checkpointed this way:\n\n- the agent could not be resumed\n\n- the agent was not resumed, and sending it a message asks for it to be resumed again\n\n**Why**\n\nYou are now told when a background agent did not pick up where it left off, and in the second case how to get it going again.\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}