shell-patternslisted
Install: claude install-skill lukacf/meerkat
# Shell Patterns
Use shell tools for concrete local commands, verification, and long-running
processes. Keep commands scoped to the user's workspace and report important
results back into the conversation.
## Background Prerequisites
`background: true` requires canonical session and operation bindings plus a
persistent realm job store, persistent blob store, and delivery projector.
Shell availability alone does not provide these resources: a shell-enabled
standalone or ephemeral composition can reject background execution with a
typed tool error. There is no process-local detached-job fallback. Use
foreground shell there (`background: false`, the default).
## Operating Rules
- Use `shell` for short foreground commands.
- When the durable runtime above is wired, use `shell` with `background: true`
for ordinary long-running commands. Keep the returned `job_id`, then inspect
with `shell_job_status` or list jobs with `shell_jobs`. A queued receipt
acknowledges submission, not command success; inspect the terminal result
before claiming completion.
- A background shell submission is durable, but its worker is explicitly
non-resumable. After a restart the job record remains and a lost worker
becomes `worker_lost`; Meerkat does not silently replay the command.
- Use `monitor_start` only when that high-trust tool is explicitly visible and
the script follows its declared protocol. Framed JSONL can emit typed
notification, checkpoint, progress, and complete frames;