The Pope Bot is an app for configuring an autonomous AI agent that can chat, run coding work, and operate continuously through connected language models and coding agents. People use it for questions, code changes, background development jobs, and live browser-based coding sessions. Its catalogue add-ons extend the bot with commands, skills, and operating instructions.
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.
npx skills add stephengpope/thepopebot --skill agent-job-backgroundgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stephengpope/thepopebotWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/stephengpope/thepopebot/agent-job-background)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stephengpope/thepopebot/agent-job-background"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stephengpope/thepopebot/agent-job-background/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stephengpope/thepopebot/agent-job-background"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stephengpope/thepopebot/agent-job-background.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00076 | $0.00405 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.00162 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00081 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
agent-job-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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Usage
# Run an agent job in the background
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js create "Update the README with installation instructions"
# With overrides
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js create "Refactor the auth module" \
--llm-model claude-opus-4-7 \
--agent-backend claude-code \
--scope agents/refactor
# Status of running jobs (all, or one by id)
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js status
node skills/agent-job-background/agent-job-background.js status <agent_job_id>
Important: pass-through behavior for create
The <description> arg becomes the new job's prompt verbatim. Pass it through unchanged — do not summarize, condense, or rewrite the user's request before calling. The new job's agent reads this description directly as its task. If the user gave you a multi-paragraph spec, pass the multi-paragraph spec.
Scope inheritance
If the calling agent is running with a SCOPE env var set, create defaults the new job to that same scope. Pass --scope <value> to override, or --scope "" to clear scope on the new job.
Notes
AGENT_JOB_TOKEN,APP_URL, andUSER_IDare injected automatically — no setup required.- The spawned job inherits
USER_IDfrom the env if set, so it's attributed to the same originator as this chat/job.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A e12d35db4a57
agent-job-background is a skill published in the GitHub repository stephengpope/thepopebot (1,857 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 405 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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