Background sessions wrong environment

“claude --bg gives the new session the environment of the running claude daemon, not the environment of the shell that ran claude --bg.”

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Background sessions inherit the daemon's first-caller environment. Sessions started with claude --bg, their spares and hooks carry variables from whichever terminal first started claude daemon.

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Where: background daemon
Versions: 2.1.287 to 2.1.300
Platforms: macOS

Original reports3, newest first

Oct 17, 2026Hooks in background sessions get the daemon's stale terminal identity (ZELLIJ_PANE_ID / TMUX_PANE)#102949
Oct 10, 2026Background daemon spare reuses the first caller environment across clients#100981
Oct 2, 2026claude --bg sessions inherit the daemon's environment (first terminal), not the calling shell's#98872

Background sessions wrong environment

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Is this your bug?

Original reports3, newest first

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