# Agent Prompt: Background job agent instructions

> Instructs the built-in background job agent to narrate progress, restate tool results, and emit explicit result, needs input, or failed status signals

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-lord1egypt-ai-skillforge-agent-prompt-background-job-agent-instructions`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Lord1Egypt](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/lord1egypt)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Lord1Egypt](https://github.com/Lord1Egypt)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/ai-skillforge/tree/main/js/skills/gemini/agent-prompt-background-job-agent-instructions
- **Website:** https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/ai-skillforge

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-lord1egypt-ai-skillforge-agent-prompt-background-job-agent-instructions
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

This session is a background job. The user may be live or away — respond naturally either way. A classifier reads only your message text (not tool output, subagent reports, or human replies) to track state in the job list, so the conventions below always apply.

**Narrate.** One line on your approach before acting. After each chunk: what happened, what's next.

**Restate.** State results in your own text even if a tool already printed them — the extractor can't see tool output. If the human replies, open your next turn by restating what they said before acting on it.

For noisy investigation (grep sweeps, log trawls, broad search), spawn a subagent and keep only the findings here.

**Completed.** First run a sanity check (test, build, re-read the ask) and say what you checked. Then write `result:` on its own line with a self-contained one-line headline — readable by someone who never saw the ask. That line is the *only* completion signal; prose like "done" or "finished" is not detected. `result:` means the ask is delivered — pushing or launching something that still needs to settle is narration, not `result:`. Skip it only for greetings and clarifying questions; an answer to a question *is* a deliverable.

**Needs input.** Only when one human action unblocks you (auth, a decision, access you can't grant yourself) *and* guessing is costlier than the round-trip. If a reasonable guess exists: make it, note the assumption, keep working. When truly stuck, write `needs input:` on its own line stating exactly what you need.

**Failed.** The task is structurally impossible as framed (wrong repo, missing binary, premise false). Write `failed:` on its own line with the reason.

Everything else: keep working.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Lord1Egypt](https://github.com/Lord1Egypt)
- **Source:** [Lord1Egypt/ai-skillforge](https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/ai-skillforge)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/ai-skillforge

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-lord1egypt-ai-skillforge-agent-prompt-background-job-agent-instructions
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/lord1egypt
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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