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MCP Background Job

dylan-gluck/mcp-background-job

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that enables coding agents to execute long-running shell commands asynchronously with full process management capabilities.

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Install

uvx mcp-background-job

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "background-job": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-background-job"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

MCP_BG_MAX_JOBSMCP_BG_MAX_OUTPUT_SIZEMCP_BG_JOB_TIMEOUTMCP_BG_CLEANUP_INTERVALMCP_BG_WORKING_DIRMCP_BG_ALLOWED_COMMANDS
Author
@dylan-gluck
Category
Developer Tools, OS Automation
License
MIT
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

About MCP Background Job

The MCP Background Job Server provides a robust solution for running shell commands in the background, allowing agents to start processes, monitor their status, interact with them, and manage their lifecycle. This is particularly useful for development workflows involving build processes, test suites, servers, or any long-running operations.

Features

  • Asynchronous Process Execution: Execute shell commands as background jobs with unique job IDs

  • Process Lifecycle Management: Start, monitor, interact with, and terminate background processes

  • Real-time Output Monitoring: Capture and retrieve stdout/stderr with buffering and tailing capabilities

  • Interactive Process Support: Send input to running processes via stdin

  • Resource Management: Configurable job limits and automatic cleanup of completed processes

  • MCP Protocol Integration: Full integration with Model Context Protocol for agent interactions

Tools (9)

  • list

    List all background jobs

  • tail

    Get recent output lines

  • execute

    Start new background job

  • interact

    Send input to job stdin

  • kill

    Terminate running job

  • running

    Process is currently executing

  • completed

    Process finished successfully

  • failed

    Process terminated with error

  • killed

    Process was terminated by user

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

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