Function IsBackground

internal/spawner/spawner.go:63–68

IsBackground reports whether flow should spawn this session as a terminal-free background agent ($FLOW_TERM=bg) rather than opening a terminal tab. bg mode is NOT a terminal backend — it bypasses SpawnTab entirely (see do.go's bg branch), so it lives in its own predicate rather than as a Detect() ca

()

// rather than as a Detect() case. The match is exact and case-sensitive,
// mirroring Detect's $FLOW_TERM handling.
func IsBackground() bool {
	if BackgroundOverride != nil {
		return *BackgroundOverride
	}
	return os.Getenv("FLOW_TERM") == "bg"
}

// Detect returns the backend that SpawnTab will use for the current
// process environment. Exposed so callers (and tests) can inspect the