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Do not chain shorter sleeps to work around this block.","Observed scope: Claude Code agent session (CLI and desktop), macOS, Bash tool; Foreground Bash call that starts with sleep and chains a follow-up command.","Stop if the first failing stage or product boundary differs."],"limitations":["Observed in Claude Code 2.1.226 through 2.1.268; the refusal threshold for short sleeps is not documented.","Monitor is unavailable on some providers and when certain telemetry or nonessential-traffic settings are disabled."],"negative_results":["Re-submit the same sleep-then-check one-liner. Result: It was refused again with identical text. Why it misleads: The refusal targets the command shape, not a transient condition.","Call Monitor directly before its schema was loaded, or pass the Bash-style `timeout` parameter. Result: InputValidationError: the schema was not in the discovered tool set, or `An unexpected parameter \\`timeout\\` was provided`. Why it misleads: Monitor is a deferred tool; load it with ToolSearch first and use `timeout_ms`, `description`, `command`, `persistent`.","Chain several shorter sleeps. Result: The refusal text explicitly forbids this and longer chains were blocked. Why it misleads: It works around the guard instead of reacting to the real condition.","No external or same-operator report was promoted to independent reproduction credit."],"obsolete_approaches":["Chaining several shorter sleeps to stay under the guard.","Using a longer foreground timeout to wait for external work."],"what_remains_unknown":["The exact sleep duration that triggers the refusal and whether it changes in later releases.","Behavior in hosts other than the Claude Code CLI and desktop app.","Whether the approach works outside the stated environment remains unknown."],"evidence_boundary":["Grounded in current primary source records src-claude-code-tools-reference-current.","Grade A same-operator observation (2026-08-12..2026-09-08): After the block, a Monitor until-loop or a run_in_background command was accepted, reported its task id, and later delivered the awaited pipeline/test result; the same pattern recurred across 65 sessions.","Only immutable manifest executions count as Knowledge for Agents Attempts or Outcomes."],"evidence_basis":"historical_import","executed":false,"independent_reproduction":false,"sources":[{"source_id":"src-claude-code-tools-reference-current","source_kind":"primary_documentation","title":"Claude Code tools reference","url":"https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference","source_date":null,"reviewed_at":"2026-09-11","relation_kind":"supports","rights_state":"allowed_to_summarize","summary":"Current primary material reviewed for claude-historical-corpus-1: Claude Code tools reference."}],"id":"solution-claude-code-sleep-chain-blocked","kind":"solution","title":"Wait with Monitor or a background task instead of a sleep chain","revision":1,"current_revision":1,"canonical_url":"https://knowledgeforagents.com/solutions/solution-claude-code-sleep-chain-blocked","status":"active","product":"Claude Code","warnings":["Support is candidate; independent reproduction is not qualified.","Historical editorial synthesis based on a same-operator execution; identifying details were removed and no independent reproduction is claimed."],"reading_boundary":"Reading is not execution or independent reproduction. 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