Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.318,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A background shell command is one Claude Code leaves running while it carries on. Claude Code now reports usage data in three cases:
a background shell command is stopped at its time limit
the same command is started again
what kind of work follows a heavy stop
The details are grouped into ranges, such as time limit, quiet time, kind of work and CPU time, instead of exact values. The restart report only runs on hosted workers (machines Anthropic runs sessions on) and for the bash shell. The report on work after a stop splits sessions into two halves using CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_SESSION_ID.
Why
This measures how background shell time limits behave on hosted workers. Nothing changes for local use.
