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feat: Phase 5 - Background Tasks Panel UI #12343

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feat: add Phase 4 background read-only concurrency (BackgroundTaskRun…
roomote May 12, 2026
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fix: add user notifications for background task completion, errors, a…
roomote May 12, 2026
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feat: Phase 5 - Background Tasks Panel UI for parallel task visibility
roomote May 12, 2026
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fix: add cancel confirmation, panel scroll constraint, and Phase 6 ex…
roomote May 12, 2026
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20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts
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Expand Up @@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ export type ExtensionState = Pick<
openAiCodexIsAuthenticated?: boolean
debug?: boolean

/** Background tasks status for the UI panel */
backgroundTasks?: BackgroundTaskStatusInfo[]

/**
* Monotonically increasing sequence number for clineMessages state pushes.
* When present, the frontend should only apply clineMessages from a state push
Expand All @@ -346,6 +349,21 @@ export type ExtensionState = Pick<
clineMessagesSeq?: number
}

/**
* Status of a background task as exposed to the webview UI.
*/
export interface BackgroundTaskStatusInfo {
taskId: string
parentTaskId: string
status: "running" | "completed" | "cancelled" | "timed_out" | "error"
startedAt: number
completedAt?: number
/** Short summary of the result (from attempt_completion) */
resultSummary?: string
/** The mode slug the background task was running in */
mode?: string
}

export interface Command {
name: string
source: "global" | "project" | "built-in"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -514,6 +532,8 @@ export interface WebviewMessage {
| "createWorktreeInclude"
| "checkoutBranch"
| "browseForWorktreePath"
// Background task messages
| "cancelBackgroundTask"
// Skills messages
| "requestSkills"
| "createSkill"
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion src/core/prompts/tools/native-tools/new_task.ts
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Expand Up @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ const MESSAGE_PARAMETER_DESCRIPTION = `Initial user instructions or context for

const TODOS_PARAMETER_DESCRIPTION = `Optional initial todo list written as a markdown checklist; required when the workspace mandates todos`

const BACKGROUND_PARAMETER_DESCRIPTION = `When set to "true", the task runs in the background concurrently with the current task. Background tasks are restricted to read-only tools only (read_file, list_files, search_files, codebase_search). Results are delivered asynchronously when the background task completes. Use for research, analysis, or documentation lookup while continuing other work.`

export default {
type: "function",
function: {
Expand All @@ -31,8 +33,12 @@ export default {
type: ["string", "null"],
description: TODOS_PARAMETER_DESCRIPTION,
},
background: {
type: ["string", "null"],
description: BACKGROUND_PARAMETER_DESCRIPTION,
},
},
required: ["mode", "message", "todos"],
required: ["mode", "message", "todos", "background"],
additionalProperties: false,
},
},
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