Background Agents is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by jeremylongshore in claude-code-plugins-plus-skills.
Manages background agents in Claude Code: list, show, cancel, or prune in-flight and completed agents from the .hyperflow/background/ directory.
Background Agents is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Background Agents comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai, ai-agents, anthropic and automation.
Documentation
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.
This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.
Background Agents is one of 53 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agency OS, Anti-Deception and Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Background Agents does, and is maintained by jeremylongshore in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills page.
Background Agents ranks #758 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Background Agents against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.
Background Agents is one of 53 skills cataloged on DirSkills from jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills.
Background Agents is one of 3670 AI Engineering skills cataloged on DirSkills, ranked #758 by stars among them.