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background-agent-pings

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from parcadei/continuous-claude-v3

What it does

Enables background agent execution with system-triggered progress notifications, avoiding manual polling and context flooding.

background-agent-pings

Installation

Install skill:

npx skills add https://github.com/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3 --skill background-agent-pings

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Skill Details

SKILL.md

Background Agent Pings

Overview

# Background Agent Pings

Trust system reminders as agent progress notifications. Don't poll.

Pattern

When you launch a background agent, continue working on other tasks. The system will notify you via reminders when:

Agent makes progress: Agent progress: X new tools used, Y new tokens
Agent writes output file (check the path you specified)

DO

```

Task(run_in_background=true, prompt="... Output to: .claude/cache/agents//output.md")
Continue with next task immediately
When system reminder shows agent activity, check if output file exists
Read output file only when agent signals completion

```

DON'T

```

# BAD: Polling wastes tokens and time

Task(run_in_background=true)

Bash("sleep 5 && ls ...") # polling

Bash("tail /tmp/claude/.../tasks/.output") # polling

TaskOutput(task_id="...") # floods context

```

Why This Matters

Polling burns tokens on repeated checks
TaskOutput floods main context with full agent transcript
System reminders are free - they're pushed to you automatically
Continue productive work while waiting

Source

This session: Realized polling for agent output wasted time when system reminders already provide progress updates

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