{"version":"2.1.305","anchor":"cycling-to-plan-mode-on-a-task-marks-planheldafterspawn","canonical_anchor":"cycling-to-plan-mode-on-a-task-marks-planheldafterspawn","heading":"Switching a background task to plan mode is now recorded","tier":"internal","area":"Background Tasks","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305\/e\/cycling-to-plan-mode-on-a-task-marks-planheldafterspawn","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305","markdown":"### Switching a background task to plan mode is now recorded\n\nChanging a background task's permission mode to plan now also marks that the task is being held in plan mode\n\n**Unclear.** What the recorded mark and the follow-up step change for you is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nPlan mode is a permission mode in which an agent plans its work before making changes. When you change a background task's mode to plan, Claude Code now also records that the task is being held in plan mode. For other modes, it takes a follow-up step instead.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis affects how plan mode works for background agents and teammates.\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}