{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"new-yield-tool-wait-for-background-work","canonical_anchor":"new-yield-tool-wait-for-background-work","heading":"Claude gets a tool for waiting on its own background work","tier":"notice","area":"Yield Tool","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/new-yield-tool-wait-for-background-work","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Claude gets a tool for waiting on its own background work\n\nA new tool lets Claude pause until background tasks, queued messages, teammate mail or a scheduled run arrive\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what switches this tool on, so it may not be available in every session.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code has a new tool, described as \"Wait for your background work\". A tool is an action Claude can choose to take during a reply. This one makes Claude wait until one of these arrives:\n\n- a background task finishing\n\n- a queued message\n\n- mail from a teammate\n\n- a scheduled run firing\n\nIf Claude calls it a second time in the same reply, the second call returns a result saying it is a duplicate instead of waiting again.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis gives Claude a direct way to hold until work it started in the background is ready, rather than checking repeatedly.\n\n- Area: Yield Tool\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 5\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}