PROCESS

BACKGROUND TASKS

Long task, push it to the background.

Bash with run_in_background, or an agent in the background. Claude keeps interacting while the build, the test or the agent runs.

You get notified when it finishes. No watching paint dry.

Combines strongly with subagents: you delegate a big investigation, keep coding something else, receive the report when it is ready.

In practice

// SDK
Bash({
  command: "npm run build",
  run_in_background: true,
  description: "Build production"
})

# CLI: agent or bash, both accept --background
# You get a notification when it finishes,
# without blocking the session.

Related practices

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