Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.317,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A subagent is a helper agent that Claude starts to handle part of a task. When one runs in the foreground, you wait for it to finish. Claude Code records some details each time it starts a subagent this way, such as whether default settings were used and which model was used. Those details now also note that the launch was in the foreground.
Why
This adds a detail to how foreground subagent launches are recorded. Nothing here changes what the subagent does.
