/jobs
View and manage background jobs (cloning, imports, living-docs). Shows job status, progress, and logs. Use when saying "check jobs", "job status", or "background tasks".
> /plugin marketplace add anton-abyzov/specweave > /plugin install sw@specweave
How it fires
How this command gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/jobs
Context preview
What this command does when you run it.
View and manage background jobs (cloning, imports, living-docs). Shows job status, progress, and logs. Use when saying "check jobs", "job status", or "background tasks".
Command definition
jobs.mddescription: View and manage background jobs (cloning, imports, living-docs). Shows job status, progress, and logs. Use when saying "check jobs", "job status", or "background tasks".
argument-hint: "[--all] [--id job-id]"
Background Jobs Monitor
Project Overrides
**Skill Memories**: If `.specweave/skill-memories/jobs.md` exists, read and apply its learnings.
Shows background job information including:
- **Clone jobs** — repository cloning progress and status
- **Import jobs** — issue/epic import from GitHub, JIRA, ADO
- **Living docs** — documentation builder progress
- **Brownfield analysis** — code-spec gap detection
Hook Execution (Default)
This command is intercepted by the **UserPromptSubmit hook** for instant execution (<100ms). The hook runs `read-jobs.sh` or `jobs.js` directly.
**No action needed** — the hook output appears automatically in `<system-reminder>` tags.
CLI Fallback
If hook output isn't displayed (rare), execute:
specweave jobs
Arguments
- `sw:jobs` — Show active and recent jobs
- `sw:jobs --all` — Show all jobs including completed
- `sw:jobs --id <job-id>` — Show details for specific job
Data Shown
| Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | Job ID | Short UUID identifier | | Type | clone-repos, import-issues, living-docs-builder, etc. | | Status | pending, running, completed, completed_with_warnings, failed | | Progress | `X/Y (Z%)` with progress bar | | Duration | Elapsed time since job started |
Related Commands
- `sw:progress` — Increment task/AC completion
- `sw-github:clone` — Trigger GitHub repo cloning
- `sw-ado:clone` — Trigger ADO repo cloning
Read more
description: View and manage background jobs (cloning, imports, living-docs). Shows job status, progress, and logs. Use when saying "check jobs", "job status", or "background tasks". argument-hint: "[--all] [--id job-id]"
Background Jobs Monitor
Project Overrides
**Skill Memories**: If `.specweave/skill-memories/jobs.md` exists, read and apply its learnings.
Shows background job information including:
- **Clone jobs** — repository cloning progress and status
- **Import jobs** — issue/epic import from GitHub, JIRA, ADO
- **Living docs** — documentation builder progress
- **Brownfield analysis** — code-spec gap detection
Hook Execution (Default)
This command is intercepted by the **UserPromptSubmit hook** for instant execution (<100ms). The hook runs `read-jobs.sh` or `jobs.js` directly.
**No action needed** — the hook output appears automatically in `<system-reminder>` tags.
CLI Fallback
If hook output isn't displayed (rare), execute:
specweave jobs
Arguments
- `sw:jobs` — Show active and recent jobs
- `sw:jobs --all` — Show all jobs including completed
- `sw:jobs --id <job-id>` — Show details for specific job
Data Shown
| Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | Job ID | Short UUID identifier | | Type | clone-repos, import-issues, living-docs-builder, etc. | | Status | pending, running, completed, completed_with_warnings, failed | | Progress | `X/Y (Z%)` with progress bar | | Duration | Elapsed time since job started |
Related Commands
- `sw:progress` — Increment task/AC completion
- `sw-github:clone` — Trigger GitHub repo cloning
- `sw-ado:clone` — Trigger ADO repo cloning
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Other commands on specweave.
- /abandon
Abandon an incomplete increment (requirements changed, obsolete)
Open command - /ado-cleanup-duplicates
Clean up duplicate Azure DevOps work items for a Feature. Finds work items with duplicate titles and closes all except the first created item.
Open command - /ado-clone
Clone Azure DevOps repositories to local workspace. Use after init if cloning was skipped, or to add repos later.
Open command - /ado-close
Close Azure DevOps work item when increment complete
Open command - /ado-create
Create Azure DevOps work item from SpecWeave increment
Open command - /ado-import-areas
Import Azure DevOps area paths from a project and map them to SpecWeave projects. Creates 2-level directory structure with area path-based organization.
Open command

