Wait for content change¶

Use when you’ve sent a command and need to wait for something to happen, but you don’t know what the output will look like. Unlike wait_for_text, this waits for any screen change rather than a specific pattern.

Avoid when you know the expected output — wait_for_text is more precise and avoids false positives from unrelated output.

Side effects: None. Readonly. Blocks until content changes or timeout. Raises an ExpectedToolError if the pane dies or is respawned while waiting, because the entry content baseline no longer describes the same pane process.

Example:

{
  "tool": "wait_for_content_change",
  "arguments": {
    "pane_id": "%0",
    "timeout": 10
  }
}

Response:

{
  "changed": true,
  "pane_id": "%0",
  "elapsed_seconds": 1.234
}

Parameters