Wait

Wait Skill

Use this skill whenever the user asks the assistant to pause or wait for a few minutes during a task. Instead of issuing a single long sleep command (which often hits the 2-minute shell timeout), run one-minute sleeps repeatedly for the requested duration.

Workflow

1. Determine the wait time. Parse the user’s request for a duration expressed in minutes. If the request is vague, ask a clarifying question (e.g., “How many minutes should I wait?”) before running commands.

2. Enforce sane limits. If the user requests a very large number of minutes, warn them and offer to break the wait into smaller chunks or confirm before proceeding.

3. Execute sequential Bash sleeps. For each of the requested N minutes, issue a separate bash tool call with sleep 60. Before each call, report the upcoming iteration as executing sleep: i/N: bash sleep 60 so observers know how many sleeps will run. Avoid bundling the sleeps into a single script; the goal is to keep every sleeping command under the 2-minute timeout.

4. Report completion. Once the loop finishes, notify the user that the wait is over and resume the primary task.

Error handling

• If the shell command fails (e.g., sleep unavailable), report the failure and stop waiting.
• If the user changes their mind mid-wait, cancel the remaining iterations and explain how much time was actually spent waiting.