You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background AgentsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.311,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear Which situations make these notices prompt Claude, rather than stay silent, is not stated.
What
A background agent is a helper task that keeps working while you do other things. When you return to an earlier session, Claude Code can show two notices about such agents: one when an agent finished before the previous session ended but its result was never reported, and one when an agent couldn't be restarted.
Before, these notices never started a new reply from Claude. In some cases they now can.
Why
When you resume a session, Claude may react to a recovered agent's result right away instead of waiting for your next message.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhich situations make these notices prompt Claude, rather than stay silent, is not stated.
