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Run long tasks in the background.

Software Engineering#devops#monitoring#shell#asynchronous#background#process-management
Authorlmorchard
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

Run long-running background processes without blocking conversations. It starts, monitors, and stops tasks and returns a job_id you can poll for output.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Start a background job with an immediate job_id.
  • Poll status and output via the status function.
  • Stop a background job safely with termination signals.
  • List all background jobs in the current conversation.
  • Safe lifecycle: per-conversation scope, 10-minute max lifetime, 500-line buffers.

Quick Start

Start a background process with a shell command and monitor its status using the returned job_id.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: background
Download link: https://github.com/lmorchard/decafclaw/archive/main.zip#background

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