background-agents

Installation
SKILL.md

Background Agents - Non-Blocking Parallel Execution

Background agents let you continue working while long-running tasks execute. Use run_in_background: true to launch agents that run without blocking.

When to Use Background Agents

  • Research phases with multiple independent agents
  • Pre-commit reviews (code-simplifier + kieran reviewer)
  • Any Task that takes >30 seconds and doesn't gate your immediate next step

Launching Background Agents

Add run_in_background: true to Task calls:

Task(
  subagent_type="compound-engineering:review:kieran-typescript-reviewer",
  prompt="Review the changes in this PR",
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