Developer compiles nine long-task timeout limits across three CLI coding agents

On November 7, 2026 at 15:01, a developer published a post on DEV Community titled "The 9 long-task timeout limits of Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI" (the 9 long-task timeout limits of Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI). The post compiles 9 limits that the three command-line coding agents set on long-running tasks. Each limit is listed with its setting name, default value, where it lives in the configuration, and the symptom it produces. The source is each vendor's documentation dated November 6, 2026.

As an example, the author notes that Claude Code's foreground Bash commands time out after 120 seconds by default and are then moved to the background, returning the message "Command did not complete within its 120s timeout and was moved to the background (tools reference)." When Claude Code is run with claude -p in CI, background commands get only 10 extra minutes. The author states that all of these numbers come from official documentation and were not individually tested, and mentions that their own integration suite takes 14 minutes on a clean run. So far this is a single compilation post, with no subsequent developments reported.