running-long-background-jobs SKILL.md skillA
running-long-background-jobs from iamakbarsha1/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/running-long-background-jobs@git:20261019.b3a119bPins git:20261019.b3a119b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iamakbarsha1/whetstone
- Path
skills/running-long-background-jobs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261019.b3a119b, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 8,250 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
Use before launching any long-running, backgrounded, detached, or nohup'd process (backfills, batch migrations, bulk data processing, multi-hour scrapes, crawls), and again when verifying it finished correctly. Also use when reconciling a batch job against a corpus (files, DB rows, records) that other processes — event hooks, cron, other agents — also write to during the run. Triggers on "background job", "long-running job", "detached process", "backfill", "batch job", "nohup", "disown…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Running Long Background Jobs **Type:** Open-source — client-agnostic methodology, no project-specific detail. **Created by akbarsha — https://github.com/iamakbarsha1** Distilled from a case where a detached backfill resolved a relative config path against a working directory it never inherited, silently ran for hours on default settings, and then reported success against a start-time target a concurrent hook had already moved. **Licence:** Released under CC BY 4.0 — share and adapt for any purpose with credit. Full text: `LICENSE` at the repository root. **Feedback & Support:** If the methodology produces a wrong call, or a rule here needs sharpening, open an issue on the repository or contact the author at the profile link above with what happened and what you expected. If the problem is the agent not following a rule below rather than the rule itself, that's an execution failure — acknowledge and correct it, don't file it as methodology feedback. ## The core rule A detached job does not inherit the session that launched it — not its working directory, not its environment, not its wakefulness — and the moment anything …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/running-long-background-jobs@sha256:497b71c7f6b48437The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.b3a119b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_j2mijwrpc25g2d25)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 8, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 36 days.
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| git:20261019.b3a119b latest | 2026-10-19 | b3a119b | 8,250 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.61aa8b5 | 2026-08-15 | 61aa8b5 | 7,286 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.88c04b3 | 2026-08-08 | 88c04b3 | 9,005 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8250 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
iamakbarsha1/whetstone · 4 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_j2mijwrpc25g2d25 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iamakbarsha1/whetstone/running-long-background-jobs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/497b71c7f6b484377f1f619df9f00eaaacc11eb2cebdbf544a209701a7a5bf3d
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