Background Jobs Skill

Run and manage background jobs from the terminal, with friendly names, live runtime details, wait support, and persisted exit metadata.

Installation Check

bg --help

If not installed:

uv tool install agentcli-helpers

Usage

bg runs commands in your platform shell. bg run returns immediately after creating the handle; a detached worker finishes the launch in the background and jobs appear running unless failure is proven. A short best-effort PID probe updates the record a few seconds later when it can. On Windows it prefers PowerShell 7, then Windows PowerShell, then cmd.exe, launches jobs without a visible console window when PowerShell is available, and expects shell syntax that matches the shell you expect.