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Developers: Claude Code's background agents call the model every 30 seconds just for status lines

@arpit_bhayani explains that each background agent in Claude Code forks a model call with its full transcript about every 30 seconds just to write a short status line in the agents panel. @mattshumer_ argues custom harness engineering is usually a mistake...

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@arpit_bhayani explains that each background agent in Claude Code forks a model call with its full transcript about every 30 seconds just to write a short status line in the agents panel. @mattshumer_ argues custom harness engineering is usually a mistake...

@arpit_bhayani explains that each background agent in Claude Code forks a model call with its full transcript about every 30 seconds just to write a short status line in the agents panel. @mattshumer_ argues custom harness engineering is usually a mistake and teams should use the harness a model was trained with...

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