You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SubagentsArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.314,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
A subagent is a helper agent that Claude starts to work on part of a task, sometimes in the background. Such an agent can have task notifications waiting for it, which are messages about work that has finished.
Before, if the helper agent failed to wake up because of a resume error, those notifications were dropped. Now, as long as you did not stop the agent yourself, they are handed to the main agent instead.
When a recorded helper agent is resumed, Claude Code also keeps track of a question it was waiting on. If the resume never happens, that question is closed and marked as "not_resumed".
Why
Updates from background agents are less likely to be lost without any sign, so the main agent can still act on them.