{"version":"2.1.300","anchor":"background-agent-task-status-skips-some-agents","canonical_anchor":"background-agent-task-status-skips-some-agents","heading":"Status notes about background agents now leave out some agents","tier":"internal","area":"Subagents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.300\/e\/background-agent-task-status-skips-some-agents","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.300","markdown":"### Status notes about background agents now leave out some agents\n\nThe background-agent status note sent to Claude now skips more agents, on top of those already read, pending, or Claude's own\n\n**Unclear.** Which background agents the new condition leaves out is not clear.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code tells the model how its background agents are doing through a `task_status` note. Background agents are helpers working on separate jobs. Before, the note skipped agents whose results were already read, agents still pending, and the agent receiving the note. It now also skips agents that meet one more condition.\n\n**Why**\n\nClaude gets fewer repeated status notes about its background agents.\n\n- Area: Subagents\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}