How do I install the Agent Job Background skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add stephengpope/agent-job-background in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

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stephengpope (@stephengpope) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Agent Job Background by stephengpope

Name: Agent Job Background
Author: stephengpope

Agent Job Background

Use to spawn or check on long-running background agent jobs (each launches a new Docker agent container that opens a PR when done). Trigger when the user says "create a background job", "spawn an agent", "kick off a job", "run this in the background", "check job status", or asks "what's the status of job <id>".

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File contents

Usage

# Run an agent job in the background
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js create "Update the README with installation instructions"

# With overrides
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js create "Refactor the auth module" \
  --llm-model claude-opus-4-7 \
  --agent-backend claude-code \
  --scope agents/refactor

# Status of running jobs (all, or one by id)
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js status
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js status <agent_job_id>

Important: pass-through behavior for `create`

The <description> arg becomes the new job's prompt verbatim. Pass it through unchanged — do not summarize, condense, or rewrite the user's request before calling. The new job's agent reads this description directly as its task. If the user gave you a multi-paragraph spec, pass the multi-paragraph spec.

Scope inheritance

If the calling agent is running with a SCOPE env var set, create defaults the new job to that same scope. Pass --scope <value> to override, or --scope "" to clear scope on the new job.

Notes

AGENT_JOB_TOKEN, APP_URL, and USER_ID are injected automatically — no setup required.
The spawned job inherits USER_ID from the env if set, so it's attributed to the same originator as this chat/job.

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