You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
BashArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.310,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The Bash tool lets Claude run shell commands. Its description, the instructions Claude reads about how to use it, was rewritten in this release.
Removed: advice to poll an outside process with a check command rather than sleeping first, and to keep any sleep short.
Added: use the Monitor tool to stream events from a background process, where each line of output becomes a notification.
Added: for a single "wait until done", run Bash in the background instead.
Added: long sleep commands at the start are blocked, and to poll until something is true, use Monitor with an until-loop such as until <check>; do sleep 2; done.
Why
Changing Claude's own instructions changes how it behaves. Expect Claude to use Monitor or background commands when it needs to wait, rather than pausing with a long sleep.