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Background Timer — Productivity skill for Claude Code

Productivity community intermediate

Background timer with task notifications -- set delayed checks without blocking conversation.

How to install Background Timer

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open culminationAI/background-timer and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Background Timer does

Background timer with task notifications for [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code).

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README

background-timer

Background timer with task notifications for [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code).

Install

claude plugins install background-timer

Usage

/timer 60 check chain logs
/timer 30 verify tests passed
/timer 120 is the build done yet

First argument = seconds, rest = message. After the delay, a task notification arrives with the message.

How it works

Runs `sleep N && echo message` in background. Claude Code task notification delivers the message when it fires. No blocking, no polling.

License

MIT

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