no-polling-agents

no-polling-agents is a skill for Claude Code from parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3. It costs 13 tokens per session (268 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A rule for handling background agents without repeatedly checking whether they have finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in workflows that launch multiple background agents and can continue without their results immediately.
Why use it?
It avoids wasting time and conversation space on polling loops while agents work independently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it in workflows that launch multiple background agents and can continue without their results immediately.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3/no-polling-agents
About the project

Continuous-Claude-v3 is a Claude Code development environment that preserves working context between sessions, coordinates specialized agents, and stores project knowledge through ledgers, handoffs, and analysis tools. It is for people using Claude Code on ongoing or complex software work. Its catalogue entries are the skills, agents, hooks, plugin, and setting that provide its workflows and orchestration.

parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 · 3,938 stars · on GitHub

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 parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 --skill no-polling-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 268 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Feb 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 $0.00013 $0.00268
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 9d ago against content hash ecdbbfa2fd66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

no-polling-agents scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat .claude/cache/status.txt
.claude/skills/no-polling-agents/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

No Polling for Background Agents

When launching parallel background agents, do NOT poll with sleep loops.

Pattern

Background agents write to status files when complete. Wait for them naturally.

DO

  • Launch agents with run_in_background: true
  • Continue with other work while agents run
  • Check status file only when user asks or when you need results to proceed
  • Trust the agent completion system

DON'T

  • Run sleep 10 && cat status.txt in loops
  • Continuously poll for completion
  • Waste tokens checking status repeatedly
  • Block on agents unless absolutely necessary

When to Check Status

  1. User explicitly asks "are they done?"
  2. You need agent output to proceed with next task
  3. Significant time has passed and user is waiting

Example

// Launch agents
Task({ ..., run_in_background: true })
Task({ ..., run_in_background: true })

// Continue with other work or conversation
// Agents will write to status file when done

// Only check when needed
cat .claude/cache/status.txt

Source

User feedback: "You can just wait until everyone pings you"

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. 9d ago First seen · 52 lines · 13 tokens per session scan B ecdbbfa2fd66

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no-polling-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 (3,938 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 268 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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