{"version":"2.1.314","anchor":"prompt-hint-about-background-agents-running-commands-in-fore","canonical_anchor":"prompt-hint-about-background-agents-running-commands-in-fore","heading":"Claude can be told that background agents can carry on work after its reply","tier":"soon","area":"Subagents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314\/e\/prompt-hint-about-background-agents-running-commands-in-fore","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314","markdown":"### Claude can be told that background agents can carry on work after its reply\n\nWhen a feature check passes, Claude is told work that must continue after its reply can run in a background agent\n\n**Unclear.** What turns this instruction on is not stated, so it is unclear whether it appears in your sessions.\n\n**What**\n\nA background agent is a helper Claude starts to keep working on its own. A new line can be added to Claude's instructions: work that must go on after Claude's reply can instead run in a background agent, which runs its commands in the foreground. The line is added only when a feature check passes.\n\n**Why**\n\nIt changes what Claude is told about using background agents, so Claude may hand ongoing work to one more often.\n\n- Area: Subagents\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}