background

background is a skill for Claude Code from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. It costs 89 tokens per session (2,080 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only tool for viewing and managing background coding agents from earlier workflow runs. It uses a registry and saved output files to show agents that are running, finished, stalled, or have errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list agents, view an agent's output, cancel one or all running agents, and prune completed output files older than seven days.
Why use it?
It gives you one place to check unfinished background work, inspect its results, cancel specific agents, or remove old completed output.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the hyperflow plugin — 28 skills, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to list agents, view an agent's output, cancel one or all running agents, and prune completed output files older than seven days.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/background
About the project

Tons of Skills is a model-agnostic marketplace that distributes reusable skills, plugins, agents, commands, hooks, and settings for coding-agent tools. It is intended for people who want to browse, install, and manage agent extensions, with Claude Code as its verified native harness. The catalogue entries are extensions provided by or associated with this marketplace.

jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace · 2,717 stars · on GitHub · tonsofskills.com

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill background
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hyperflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 22 agents.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,080 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original 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 $0.00089 $0.02080
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01040
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00416
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00208

Measured 13d ago against content hash 8aec2ec9190f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

background 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 13d ago.

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.

plugins/ai-agency/hyperflow/skills/background/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Background

Read-only-by-default management interface for background agents fired by other hyperflow skills (dispatch quality gates, deploy CI watcher, scaffold analysis refresh, cache compact, scope speculative prefetch). Reads from .hyperflow/background/registry.json + per-agent output buffers.

Full doctrine: background-agents.md.

Subcommands

Subcommand Description
list Print the registry: in-flight · completed-uncollected · stalled · errored
show <id> Print one agent's output buffer (.hyperflow/background/<id>.md)
cancel <id> Cancel one specific in-flight agent
cancel --all Cancel every in-flight agent (use before closing a session)
prune Delete completed .hyperflow/background/<id>.md files older than 7 days

Default subcommand when none provided: list.

Subcommand Details

list

Read .hyperflow/background/registry.json. Group entries by status and print a compact table:

## In flight (N)

| ID                                | Purpose                              | Fired      | Timeout | Blocks  |
|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|------------|---------|---------|
| `bg-1718049600-quality-gates-b2`  | Layer 5 gates Batch 2                | 17:30      | 18:00   | step3   |
| `bg-1718049820-ci-watcher`        | GitHub Actions watch for v4.7.0      | 17:33      | 18:33   | —       |

## Completed (uncollected, N)

| ID                                | Purpose                              | Completed  | Duration | Output |
|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|------------|----------|--------|
| `bg-1718045400-scaffold-refresh`  | Refresh .hyperflow/architecture.md   | 16:42      | 2m 18s   | 1.4kb  |

## Stalled / Errored (N)

| ID                                | Purpose                              | Status            | Reason            |
|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
| `bg-1717980000-cache-compact`     | Compact learnings.md                 | STALLED           | timeout (30m)     |

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

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. 13d ago First seen · 179 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 8aec2ec9190f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

background is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (2,717 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 2,080 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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