{"version":"2.1.311","anchor":"worker-crash-respawn-backoff-reworked","canonical_anchor":"worker-crash-respawn-backoff-reworked","heading":"Crashed workers are restarted straight away, with a shared wait between retries","tier":"notice","area":"Background Agents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311\/e\/worker-crash-respawn-backoff-reworked","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311","markdown":"### Crashed workers are restarted straight away, with a shared wait between retries\n\nAfter a worker crashes, Claude Code now tries to restart it at once, and the crash notice no longer says it is respawning\n\n**What**\n\nA worker is a separate process that runs part of Claude Code's work, such as an agent. When one crashes, Claude Code now:\n\n- tries to start a replacement at once\n\n- sets a shared waiting period before later retries, where it used to set a simple timer\n\nThe crash notice still reports that the worker crashed, but no longer ends with \"respawning\u2026\".\n\n**Why**\n\nCrashed workers may come back sooner than before.\n\n- Area: Background Agents\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}