Background subagents now move a shell command to the background after 3 minutes on all providers. The release notes give the reason: the prompt cache should not expire while the command runs.
In the News: November 4, 2026 (Morning)
Claude Code 2.1.318 moves long subagent shell commands to the background after three minutes and adds a ten-day warning before a headless sign-in ends.
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Claude Code 2.1.318 backgrounds long subagent commands and warns ten days before a headless sign-in ends
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Ask HN: OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
488 points and 148 comments at about 21 hours (observed 7:05 AM EST, November 4). The original poster says coworkers found the data-sharing setting in Codex switched back on after they had turned it off, and one commenter reports the same on their own account. We have not read an OpenAI statement or any settings history, so this is a discussion, not a finding.