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…tton A background command, monitor or subagent only showed as a row under the message Claude yielded with, so it scrolled away as the conversation went on, and there was no way to stop one without stopping everything. The Claude adapter now keeps its tasks for the session instead of clearing them on every message, and sends the full list (from the CLI's background_tasks_changed) whenever it changes. The composer shows it as a compact card with each task's name, command and running time, and a stop button that sends stop_task for that task alone. A task stopped this way no longer holds the turn for 15 seconds waiting on a follow-up. When Claude starts writing with no turn open (a task it left running woke it), the adapter opens a turn for it, so the session shows as busy, waits on the work that turn starts like any other, and settles when Claude yields. Stop still stops the turn and every background task, whichever turn started it. Refs hardbeat920#501
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Check name Status Explanation Linked Issues check Issue #501requires background jobs above the composer.BackgroundJobsrenders each tracked job with its title, optional command, elapsed time, and optional stop control.Composerplaces the list …Out of Scope Changes check The changes stay within issue #501. The session model, harness events, reducer, registry, Claude adapter, UI, and tests support the background-job list and its stop behavior. Woken-turn handling suppo…Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: showing running background tasks above the composer with individual stop buttons. Description check The description includes complete What changed, Why, UI, Validation, and Checklist sections. It explains the implementation, scope, testing, limitations, and user-visible behavior in sufficient detail… Full details: Linked Issues check
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#501requires background jobs above the composer.BackgroundJobsrenders each tracked job with its title, optional command, elapsed time, and optional stop control.Composerplaces the list above the message queue.SessionPanesupplies session jobs and omits stop controls for remote sessions. The harness and Claude changes publish, retain, and stop jobs. The reported tests cover rendering and job lifecycle behavior.
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#501. The session model, harness events, reducer, registry, Claude adapter, UI, and tests support the background-job list and its stop behavior. Woken-turn handling supports the required live status. The described Codex and idle-park behavior remains unchanged. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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…aude If writing stop_task fails, the task keeps running and still wakes Claude when it ends, so it must not be marked as stopped.
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🟠 Major · Retain tasks whose cancellation request fails. · claude.ts:356-359
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writeJsonrejects whilecancelClaudeTurnsendsstop_task, the catch ignores the failure and the followingclear()calls discard the task and job state. The Claude task can continue running, butfinishBackgroundTaskcan no longer find it. The task therefore cannot establish its follow-up hold when it finishes and can still wake Claude outside the tracked state.
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SOL-95: i18n keys for the stop button of the card brought over from the upstream PR hardbeat920#1040.
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What changed
Everything Claude still runs in the background (commands, monitors, subagents), whichever turn started it, is listed in a compact card above the composer with its name, command and running time, and a stop button for each. When a task Claude left running wakes it after the turn has ended, the session now shows as busy until Claude yields again.
Closes #501
Why
Today a background task only gets a row under the message Claude yielded with ("Running in background"). Once the conversation moves on, that row scrolls away, and the only hint left is the count in the status line ("3 tasks running in background"). There is no way to see which ones are still running or to stop one without stopping everything.
Under that, the Claude adapter only follows tasks for the turn it has open:
runTurnclearsbackgroundTasksandbackgroundRowson every message. A task started before the latest message is forgotten, socancelClaudeTurn, which stops whatever is inbackgroundTasks, no longer reaches it.RESUME_GRACE_MSwindow).noteClaudeTurnStartedreturns at!live.activeTurn, so nothing opens a turn for that. The reply streams in while the session reads as idle, and any task Claude starts in that reply holds no turn. The next message then clears it as above.What this changes, all in the Claude adapter except the card:
runTurnno longer clearsbackgroundTasksorbackgroundRows. It only drops rows of tasks that have finished.cancelClaudeTurnclears them after sendingstop_taskfor each one.syncBackgroundJobs(called fromsyncBackgroundWait, so on every change) sends a newbackground.jobsevent with{ id, title, command?, startedAt }per task. It lists only tasks in the CLI's latestbackground_tasks_changed, which the CLI defines as the full set of live background tasks, replacing the previous one. Foreground tool calls and ambient tasks are not listed.commandcomes from the Bash / Monitor call that started the task.stopBackgroundJobon the adapter (stopHarnessBackgroundJobin the registry). Claude implements it with the samestop_taskcontrol request Stop already sends. The row goes away once the CLI reports the task ended. A task stopped this way no longer holds the turn for the 15 s follow-up window: Claude Code's own session runner (2.1.301) only holds for a follow-up after acompletedorfailedtask, not astoppedone. If Claude does pick back up, that is a woken turn (next point).assistant/stream_event) with no turn open,noteClaudeOutputopens one. It setsactiveTurn, so the existing hold logic (waiting on its tasks, background rows, the grace window) applies unchanged. It sendssession.woke, which setsbusy. When that turn settles,finishActiveTurnsendssession.idle(stopStreaming) instead of resolving a send that doesn't exist. Only Claude's own output opens such a turn, notsystem/init, so nothing without a reply behind it can leave a session stuck busy. A follow-up written in meanwhile is queued or steered per the user's setting, as for any busy session. Steering works because the adapter has a turn open.Stop button: unchanged. It stops the turn and every background task, now including ones started before the latest message. That is what the comment in
cancelClaudeTurnalready says it means, and it matches Claude Code. Without theperTaskStopAffordanceinitialize option, an interrupt kills background tasks too. Turning that option on would make Stop spare background agents. That felt like a separate decision, so this PR leaves it off. To stop a single task, use its button in the card.stopStreamingdrops the list along withbackgroundTasks. A turn only ends once its background work is done, or through a Stop that ends that work too.Codex: MonoCode's Codex adapter doesn't receive any background work today, so this is Claude-only. The event and the card are harness-neutral, and
stopBackgroundJobis optional. Remote sessions show the card without stop buttons, because the call would go to the local adapter.Related open PRs: #1037 (ours) changes
noteTaskNotification/showBackgroundRows, and #888 changes the fold andbackground.updatedinapply.ts. This PR adds new functions and event cases next to them. Merging this with either one or both ontomainis clean, and the Claude adapter,core, andtranscriptActivitytests (413) pass on the combined tree.One limit I left alone: the registry's idle park still stops a session 3 minutes after its last send settled, even if Claude is in a woken turn by then. That is unchanged from
main; it can be a follow-up if wanted.UI
Rendered with Playwright (WebKit) from the real
AgentTranscriptandComposerand the app stylesheet, with the same session state in both shots. Claude started a dev server, a test watcher and a review subagent, and the conversation has moved on since.Before: the rows for those tasks have scrolled away. Only the count is left.
After: each task is listed above the composer with its command and running time, and can be stopped on its own. The card uses the same style as the message queue and the usage-limit notice, and takes no room when nothing runs.
Validation
New tests in
claudeLive.test.ts("claude background jobs"). All four fail onmain(checked by running the new file againstmain):lists a background command with its command until it ends: onmainthere is no list (backgroundJobsisundefined).shows Claude as busy when a task wakes it after the turn, until it yields with its work done: the turn ends; Claude wakes and starts a watcher, yields, and the watcher finishes and wakes it again. This expectssession.woke, thensession.idleonly after the last reply, andbusyin between. Onmainthere are no such events.keeps a task from an earlier turn listed after the next message, and Stop reaches it: onmainthe next message forgets the task and Stop sends nostop_taskfor it.stops one job without holding the turn for a follow-up: sendsstop_taskfor that task only, and the turn settles as soon as the CLI reports it stopped, without the 15 s wait. Onmainthere is nostopClaudeBackgroundJob.still holds for the follow-up when the stop never reached Claude(from CodeRabbit's review): if writingstop_taskfails, the task isn't marked stopped and still holds the turn for its follow-up.Also new: two reducer tests in
apply.test.ts(session.woke/session.idle/background.jobs, and Stop drops the list), andBackgroundJobs.test.ts(rows, running time, stop buttons, nothing rendered without tasks, no stop button without a handler).npm run check:web: vitest 484 files / 5372 tests passed (2 files / 13 tests skipped),tsc --noEmitclean. No Rust touched, so I didn't runcheck:rust.prettier --checkis clean on everything I changed.SessionPane.tsxandclaudeLive.test.tshave unformatted lines from before, which I left alone.background_tasks_changedsemantics,stop_task, how Claude Code treats a stopped task) is from the CLI's own schema descriptions in 2.1.301 and the existing fixtures here.Checklist
npm run check(check:web; no Rust files changed)Summary by CodeRabbit