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-verificationfor the Verify skill has been removed, while the default Verify skill remains. - The
/schedulecommand 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/scheduledtoclaude.ai/code/routines. ended_reason: "run_once_fired"means the one-time run has completed, and it can be set again with a newrun_once_at.- The timezone conversion guidance has also been expanded to cover one-time timestamps.
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