{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"headless-side-question-dedupe-deadline-and-cleanup","canonical_anchor":"headless-side-question-dedupe-deadline-and-cleanup","heading":"Side questions from embedding apps now time out and handle repeats","tier":"notice","area":"SDK","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/headless-side-question-dedupe-deadline-and-cleanup","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### Side questions from embedding apps now time out and handle repeats\n\nA repeated `side_question` request now joins the one already running, and a run that doesn't answer in time is given up and stopped\n\n**What**\n\nApplications that embed Claude Code can send a `side_question` request to ask a quick question during a session. How Claude Code handles these requests changed:\n\n- If the same request arrives twice, the second one now joins the run already in progress instead of starting another.\n\n- If a run gives no answer by a deadline, Claude Code gives it up and stops it.\n\n- Once a run finishes, its response is released from memory.\n\n**Why**\n\nRepeated requests, for example when an application retries, no longer start duplicate runs, and a stuck side question no longer hangs forever.\n\n- Area: SDK\n- Names: `side_question`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}