Power Tools & the Capstonebeginner · ~55 min

Stop Watching It Run — Background a Long Job in Claude Code and Keep Working

Have you ever started something slow in your terminal and then realised you had just locked yourself out of your own assistant until it finished?

A forty-minute job should not cost you forty minutes of help, and the fix is not patience — it is knowing how to hand the job to the background, keep working, and still get a truthful answer about how it is going.

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What you'll do

A small job desk you can rebuild anywhere: one long-running server and one long-running batch job, both started in the background from inside Claude Code, both proven to be genuinely running rather than merely started, both readable on demand, both stoppable on purpose — plus a written rule for what happens to them when you close the console.