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Background job improvements

·2026.04.22 09:18

Key point

Background job responses and /schedule routine management have been improved.

Details

In Claude Code 2.1.117, the behavior of background job agents has changed.

  • A System Prompt: Background job behavior has been added, guiding background jobs to describe progress and rewrite the final result into the message body.
  • Jobs now explicitly display done / blocked / failed status so the classifier can extract results more accurately.
  • The duplicate alias /runtime-verification for the Verify skill has been removed, while the default Verify skill remains.
  • The /schedule command has changed its user-facing wording from triggers to routines.
  • In addition to cron_expression, you can now schedule a one-time run using run_once_at (RFC3339 UTC).
  • The management URL has also changed from claude.ai/code/scheduled to claude.ai/code/routines.
  • ended_reason: "run_once_fired" means the one-time run has completed, and it can be set again with a new run_once_at.
  • The timezone conversion guidance has also been expanded to cover one-time timestamps.

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