create-background-agent

create-background-agent is a skill for Claude Code from dlt-hub/dlthub-ai-harness. It costs 186 tokens per session (5,110 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for writing an AGENT.md file that runs a background agent without constant supervision. The agent can start on a schedule, after a failed job, or from a web interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create agents that diagnose failed jobs, produce scheduled summaries, or run other unattended tasks on the dltHub platform.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually start repeated or event-driven work. This is useful when tasks should happen after a known event or at regular times.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the init plugin — 4 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create agents that diagnose failed jobs, produce scheduled summaries, or run other unattended tasks on the dltHub platform.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dlt-hub/dlthub-ai-harness/create-background-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add dlt-hub/dlthub-ai-harness --skill create-background-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dlt-hub/dlthub-ai-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install init, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 186 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,110 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00186 $0.05110
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.02044
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.01022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00511

Measured 10d ago against content hash 709d8dfda7e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-background-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (check_agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

workbench/init/skills/create-background-agent/SKILL.md · 345 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 345 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A 709d8dfda7e5

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create-background-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository dlt-hub/dlthub-ai-harness (63 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 5,110 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-09.

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