Async Job Watcher: Seamless AI Agent Skill for Claude & Codex

Async Job Watcher: Seamless AI Agent Skill for Claude & Codex

The Async Job Watcher is a specialized AI agent skill that enables seamless execution of asynchronous background jobs for Claude & Codex environments. This skill facilitates the reliable spawning of background tasks, monitoring their progress, ensuring data integrity, and cleaning up temporary files post-execution.

What this skill does

• Spawn Background Job: Initiates a detached export job using `spawn_background_job` with customizable delay settings. The job configuration is saved in an output dictionary, providing necessary job details.
• Poll Until Ready: Continuously monitors the job's status by polling `check_job_status_file` at one-second intervals until completion status is confirmed as "READY." This step ensures awareness of job progress and successful execution within a set timeout period.
• Verify Exported Artifact: Verifies the integrity and validity of the exported data artifact using specified checks, raising runtime errors when validation conditions such as row count or checksum are not met.
• Cleanup: Ensures all temporary status files are removed post-process to maintain an organized workspace.

Who it is for

This capability is intended for developers and software teams utilizing AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. It provides an efficient workflow to manage asynchronous task execution without requiring extensive oversight.

Use cases

• Automating data export tasks in AI-enhanced software projects.
• Reliably syncing job execution with software development workflows.
• Ensuring consistent data validation in complex export operations, improving data fidelity and reliability in AI-driven applications.

Technical details

• Integrates with Claude Code and Codex AI platforms.
• Employs `async-job-watcher` tool to optimize asynchronous operations.
• Utilizes Python script (`examples/async_job_watcher/actions.py`) for implementing the multi-stage process.
• Operations are executed with configurable parameters to suit various development environments.

Source & Licence

This package is built on open-source work published by google (google/lightflow) and distributed under Apache-2.0. The original licence text and copyright notice are included in your download.

Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted under the Apache License 2.0, which also includes an express patent grant. Attribution and any NOTICE file must be retained.

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Delivery & Support

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• Format: ZIP archive containing the skill files, documentation and the original licence.
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