What
The Task tool has been renamed to Agent to better reflect its purpose. Task is kept as a backward-compatible alias.
Details
- Tool name changed from
"Task"to"Agent" - Description changed from
"Launch a new task"to"Launch a new agent" "Task"remains as an alias — existing CLAUDE.md files and permissions referencing "Task" will continue to work- Hook event descriptions updated from "Task tool call" to "Agent tool call"
Evidence
Tool definition (search for var tq = "Agent", aliases: containing "Task")
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.