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Best background jobs skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patterns for building LLM agents on Trigger.dev tasks: prompt chaining, routing, parallel workers, orchestrator-workers, evaluator loops and human approval gates. | papermark/ | 9.2k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 2 | 2.Figure Draw an animated figure (boxes, arrows, moving data) as one self-contained SVG for a GitHub README, PR, issue or blog post. | vectorize-io/ | 46k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Configures Trigger.dev projects through trigger.config.ts, with build extensions for Prisma, Playwright, Puppeteer, FFmpeg, Python and system packages. | papermark/ | 9.2k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | A skill your agent uses when working with Foundatio infrastructure abstractions for .NET -- caching, queuing, messaging, file storage, distributed locking, or background jobs. | FoundatioFx/ | 2.1k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 5 | Audits Trigger.dev tasks, schedules and run history for wasteful machine sizes, retries, polling and cron frequency to cut spend. | papermark/ | 9.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 6 | A skill your agent uses for Node.js backend AI via @cloudbase/node-sdk (=3.16.0) — cloud functions, CloudRun, Express/Koa/NestJS, serverless APIs, scheduled jobs, LLM proxies, agent orchestration. | TencentCloudBase/ | 1.1k | 3 repos | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 7 | Shows how to subscribe to Trigger.dev task runs from the backend and from React for progress indicators, live dashboards, AI response streams and approval waits. | papermark/ | 9.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 8 | 8.Nubase A skill your agent uses when the user mentions Nubase broadly, wants a backend for an AI-generated app, or needs to deploy/publish generated code online — across Database, Auth, Storage, Assets… | OtterMind/ | 624 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| 9 | Guides building durable background tasks, scheduled jobs and queues with Trigger.dev, including retries, waits, idempotency and concurrency limits. | papermark/ | 9.2k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 10 | Builds Laravel 10+ applications with Eloquent models, Sanctum authentication, Horizon queues, API resources and Livewire components, tested with Pest or PHPUnit. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 11 | 11.Tasks Manage your assigned tasks on the TinyAGI kanban board — list tasks, update task status, create new tasks, and add or view comments. | TinyAGI/ | 3.6k | — | ~721 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 12 | 12.K8e Sandbox Run a goal end to end inside an isolated K8E sandbox pod (gVisor / Kata / Firecracker) instead of on the host: exec bash / Python / Node / TypeScript, install packages, move files in and out, reuse… | xiaods/ | 499 | — | ~6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 13 | Starts, lists, monitors, waits on and stops long-running background commands through a dedicated set of job-management tools. | YaoApp/ | 8.1k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 14 | Develop, debug, and manage Temporal applications across Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, and Rust. | temporalio/ | 230 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 15 | Implementation patterns for Upstash Workflow and QStash handlers in the LobeHub codebase: dry runs, fan-out chunking and single-item execution. | lobehub/ | 83k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 16 | 16.Jobs Manage agy staffer background jobs - collect results, check status, cancel, follow-up conversation, and setup. | keli-wen/ | 723 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 17 | Selectively monitor important long-running or resource-intensive commands with Haoleme by prefixing them with hao, so status, output, and completion notifications sync to the mobile app. | HaolemeApp/ | 157 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 18 | 18.Rails Jobs Apply best practices for Rails background jobs using simple orchestration, idempotency, and safe retries. | marckohlbrugge/ | 724 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 mo ago |
| 19 | Shows how to build entity actors with Akka.Hosting so the same code runs in local unit tests and in a sharded cluster in production. | Aaronontheweb/ | 1.2k | 1 repo | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 19 days ago |
| 20 | Routes backend work in the Superloopy loop harness to the right reference module, covering API contracts, schema migrations, transactions, background jobs, caching and security. | beefiker/ | 111 | 1 repo | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | 21.RAG Skills RAG-specific best practices for LlamaIndex, ChromaDB, and Celery workers. | llama-farm/ | 837 | 1 repo | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 22 | 22.Fba FastAPI Best Architecture (fba) project development guide. An agent skill from Zhongye1/KnowAgenticRAG. | Zhongye1/ | 143 | — | ~758 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 days ago |
| 23 | Deploys, configures, and troubleshoots IBM Cloud Code Engine workloads using the ibmcloud ce CLI. | IBM/ | 117 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 24 | Create a Polylith base with poly create base — the entry point of a deployable application (HTTP API, CLI, message-queue consumer, AWS Lambda handler, GCP Cloud Function, scheduled job). | DavidVujic/ | 553 | — | ~757 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 25 | Design, build, or debug data processing pipelines. An agent skill from agulli/atlas-agents. | agulli/ | 578 | — | ~714 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 26 | A skill your agent uses when planning or replanning engineering missions that create, change, port, migrate, integrate, or preserve durable codebase behavior across UI, API, CLI, background jobs… | Intelligent-Internet/ | 334 | — | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 27 | Entry point for AI-agent work on AWS: pick a runtime, plan a migration for existing workloads, and build an executable POC — one phased flow. | aws/ | 2.8k | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 28 | Serverless GPU cloud platform for running ML workloads. An agent skill from Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs. | Orchestra-Research/ | 13k | 5 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 29 | A skill your agent uses when writing shell scripts, Python automation, or any unattended batch job. | aiming-lab/ | 3.5k | — | ~225 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 30 | Scaffold and maintain a SLURM/HPC job-dependency tree for an EnsembleKalmanProcesses.jl (EKP) calibration pipeline. | CliMA/ | 127 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 31 | Environment-level Dataverse administration — bulk delete, retention/archival, organization settings, OrgDB settings, recycle bin, audit, and the 37 allowlisted PPAC toggles. | microsoft/ | 241 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 32 | 32.Tsk Help A skill your agent uses when the user asks about tsk commands, delegating development tasks to AI agents, managing sandboxed task execution, or working with the tsk task queue and server. | dtormoen/ | 171 | — | ~760 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 33 | 33.Loki Logs A skill your agent uses when investigating production behaviour from logs — a 500/error in prod, a failing or stuck Celery task, tracing one request/traceid/user across services, or confirming a… | letsrevel/ | 109 | — | ~918 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 34 | Review PRs and diffs for unbounded memory loading, concurrency explosions, oversized payload materialization, and missing pagination or byte caps. | simstudioai/ | 30k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 35 | Diagnose a bounded backend or multi-service failure from GitHub Issues, Jira, Aone, user-provided exports, logs, traces, responses, stack traces, or job records. | QoderAI/ | 2.4k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 36 | Builds full-stack Frappe Framework applications end-to-end. An agent skill from frappe/skills. | frappe/ | 146 | — | ~943 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 days ago |
| 37 | 37.Rote Shell A skill your agent uses when the task needs to run a local command and remember the result, inspect CLI output with provenance, follow a log or process stream, start or observe a background job… | modiqo/ | 706 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | Implement a Django feature following the opinionated architecture — prefixed ULID IDs, repository pattern, Pydantic DTOs, svcs service locator, project-scoped django-ninja API, Celery reliable… | dvf/ | 109 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 39 | Builds event tracking, activity feeds, and webhook systems following 37signals patterns with a generic Event model and Eventable concern. | dilolabs/ | 213 | 1 repo | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 40 | Guidance for building and debugging durable background jobs in Elixir with Oban and Oban Pro, covering serialization, retries, uniqueness, chaining, chunking and workflows. | georgeguimaraes/ | 184 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 17 days ago |
| 41 | 41.Neon Overview of the Neon platform for apps and agents, spanning Postgres, Auth, Data API, and the new services: Object Storage, Compute Functions, and AI Gateway. | xai-org/ | 281 | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | today |
| 42 | 42.Schked Guide for working with Schked, a Ruby recurring-job scheduler built on top of rufus-scheduler. | bibendi/ | 138 | — | ~454 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 43 | Expert Django Celery guidance for asynchronous task processing. | vintasoftware/ | 150 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 44 | 44.Job Patterns Implements shallow background jobs with later/now conventions using Solid Queue. | dilolabs/ | 213 | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 45 | 45.Bullmq 创建或修改 BullMQ 队列任务。当需要创建新队列、添加任务类型、注册 Worker、设置定时任务、或用户请求"添加后台任务/队列处理"时使用 | zhe-qi/ | 193 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 46 | Create, update, debug, or review Pioreactor plugin background jobs, including file-based plugin modules, BackgroundJobContrib or LongRunningBackgroundJobContrib classes, pio run command… | Pioreactor/ | 149 | — | ~799 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 47 | Creates minimal Action Mailer classes with bundled notification patterns following 37signals conventions. | dilolabs/ | 213 | 1 repo | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 48 | Guides building event-driven background work for LobeHub agents, with sources, signals, actions, policies, workflow handoff and deduplication. | lobehub/ | 83k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best background jobs skill?
Trigger.dev Agent Patterns from papermark/papermark ranks first of the 156 background jobs skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 9.2k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Figure and Trigger.dev Configuration.
Which background jobs skills are official?
13 of the 156 background jobs skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Temporal Developer, Code Engine Specialist, Agent Advisor, Dv Admin, Sentry Python SDK and 8 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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