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Background Agent Pings

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parcadei·vlatest·agents·MIT

Periodically checks external services & APIs to proactively identify and resolve potential issues impacting agent performance.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add parcadei/continuous-claude-v3 --skill background-agent-pings -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

parcadei

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Install target

Live repository

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No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned parcadei/continuous-claude-v3 at d07ff4b06b.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
d07ff4b06b
Manifest
.claude/skills/background-agent-pings/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 42 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The background-agent-pings skill allows an AI agent to periodically send status updates or "pings" while performing a task. These pings can include information about progress, errors encountered, or other relevant data. This enables monitoring and intervention without interrupting the primary workflow of the agent.

When to use it

  • Long-running tasks: Use this skill when an agent is engaged in processes that take a significant amount of time, allowing for periodic status checks.
  • Complex workflows: Monitor progress through multi-step procedures and identify potential bottlenecks or errors early on.
  • Debugging & Monitoring: Gain insight into the internal state of an agent during execution to aid in troubleshooting.
  • User feedback loops: Provide users with updates on task completion, preventing them from assuming inactivity.

Key capabilities

  • Periodic status reporting
  • Error reporting
  • Progress tracking
  • Customizable ping frequency

Example prompts

  • "Agent, use background-agent-pings and report every 5 minutes."
  • "Enable background pings with a message including the current error count."
  • "Start the task and send a ping when you've processed 10 items."

Tips & gotchas

The skill requires careful configuration of the ping frequency to avoid overwhelming the system or disrupting performance. Consider the overhead of sending these updates when setting the interval.