Built-in skill
Background Tasks
ProductivityKeep long jobs moving after a chat reply and see progress, results, or cancellation from one place.
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
For work that outlives a reply. A video render or a scheduled run keeps going after the message ends, and this is what says it is working and hands you the result when it lands.
Grant model
How granting works
A skill is a permission you hand to an agent, not a silent preload.
- Find it in Skills Background Tasks is built in, so there is nothing separate to install.
- Choose who can use it Give the skill only to the agents that need this job, and change that choice whenever you want.
- Review its access This skill does not ask for additional access.
Prompts
Try it with
The quick actions this skill puts in front of you in the app.
- What's running? Is anything still working in the background right now?
- Check my video Has my video finished generating yet?
- Stop that job Cancel the background job that's still running.
- Schedule something Run this every morning at 8am.
Access summary
What it may use
This skill does not ask for additional access.
- Network
- No network access
- Files
- No file access
- Memory
- No saved-memory access
- Credentials
- No connected-account access
- Media
- No media access
- Browser
- No browser access
Set up in Background Tasks
This skill doesn’t have its own settings screen. Everything it uses is configured in Background Tasks.
Related
Works with
The apps, skills and tools Background Tasks sits next to.
Background Tasks
Follow long jobs and collect their results in one place
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
Video Generation
Create videos with the provider you choose and let longer renders finish in the background.
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
Image Generation
Create or edit images with the provider you choose, then return the finished picture to the conversation.
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
More Productivity
Agent Admin
Create focused agents for recurring jobs, then choose each one's role, knowledge, model, and access.
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
Agent Hiring
Add an agent that reports to one of your own — after checking whether an existing agent already covers the job — then write its role, teach it, and test it before anything depends on it.
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
Business
Manage products, stock, prices, taxes, and inventory from a screen or by asking your agent.
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
ElevenLabs
Connect ElevenLabs for lifelike speech, transcription, voice effects, music, and other audio work using your own account.
- Android — supported
- iPhone — supported
- Mac — supported
Get Background Tasks
It is built into OpenAlly on the clients shown above, no separate skill download.