You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SubagentsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.317,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear It is not stated which agents or teammates get the plain 'running' label.
What
When Claude Code lists work that is in progress, each running agent or teammate gets a status line. An agent here means a helper that Claude Code starts to work on part of a task. A teammate means a member of a team of such helpers. The status line used to show how long the agent had been running and how many tokens it had used. Tokens are the units of text a model reads and writes.
The status line can now show the word 'running' on its own, with no elapsed time and no token count. This happens when a new option is passed to the code that builds the status line. In every other case the row looks the same as before.
Why
If a running agent or teammate shows only 'running', that is expected. The timer and token count are being left out on purpose, and the agent is not stuck.
How sure we are
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The writer flagged doubtIt is not stated which agents or teammates get the plain 'running' label.
