{"version":"2.1.318","anchor":"auto-background-timer-can-be-armed-by-a-tool","canonical_anchor":"auto-background-timer-can-be-armed-by-a-tool","heading":"Some tools can move themselves to the background after two minutes","tier":"notice","area":"Background Tasks","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.318\/e\/auto-background-timer-can-be-armed-by-a-tool","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.318","markdown":"### Some tools can move themselves to the background after two minutes\n\nA tool can now start the two-minute move to the background on its own, without `CLAUDE_AUTO_BACKGROUND_TASKS` being set\n\n**Unclear.** Which tools start the timer themselves.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can move long-running work to the background after about two minutes (120000 milliseconds), so Claude's turn carries on. Before, this timer was only started when `CLAUDE_AUTO_BACKGROUND_TASKS` was set. A tool can now also start it itself.\n\n**Why**\n\nSome commands may now move to the background after two minutes even when you have not set `CLAUDE_AUTO_BACKGROUND_TASKS`.\n\n- Area: Background Tasks\n- Names: `CLAUDE_AUTO_BACKGROUND_TASKS`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}