Reminder
Set a background timer for Claude to check back on long-running tasks.
Purpose
When managing long-running processes (cluster jobs, benchmarks, inference, training runs, etc.), use this skill to wake yourself up after a delay. When the reminder triggers, check on the task status and decide next steps:
- Set another reminder if still running
- Make edits and resubmit if something failed
- Report results if complete
- Take any other appropriate action
Usage
- Parse the time (e.g., "30 minutes", "1 hour")
- Convert to seconds
- Run the command in the background using Bash with
run_in_background: true
- Include context about what to check on
Command format
sleep SECONDS && echo "CHECK: description of what to check"
Example Workflow
- User asks to submit training jobs
- Claude submits training jobs
- Claude sets a reminder to check back
- Reminder triggers → Claude checks training job status
- Claude decides: wait longer (new reminder), fix any bugs and resubmit, or report completion
Other examples:
- After submitting a learning rate sweep:
sleep 1800 && echo "CHECK: learning rate sweep jobs on cluster"
- After starting a benchmark:
sleep 3600 && echo "CHECK: benchmark run status"
- After kicking off inference:
sleep 600 && echo "CHECK: inference batch progress"
