Run terminal command in the background

[kvokka]

It would be nice if the AI agent were capable of running some commands in the background, like a web server start.

The trick with bash & kills the output, and hack with tee to logs does not compile color changes and other goodies from the terminal.

it feels that have an option about this natively is the best option

[RyzeNGrind]

+1 I would also like to add that Cursor just release Background Agents in their v0.50 release IIRC. Definitely would be an incredible addition for RooCode as well.

[InTEGr8or]

I would want it to run in a new separate terminal where I can see the outputs and have a history of what was run.

Hidden terminals tend not to run in the exact same context that I've configured for my terminal, but a separate terminal that I could view, and that the chat would switch back out from so that the chat could run another command, even if the background-terminal was still streaming results would be good.

[BradKML]

Cursor has this now I think, and RooCode would benefit IF they can handle RAGs for terminal logs

[InTEGr8or]

I have been able to get Roo-Code to work in and monitor two terminals at once. One was for executing commands, and the other was for monitoring the watch mode log.

It took some coercion, though, and I had trouble getting it to repeat the strategy. I could develop a rule document for it, but you'd probably have to know the terminal commands that Roo-Code uses to access the terminal, which I don't yet.

[kvokka]

it's not a prob to make it manually, the simplest approach i use is to run a live reload web server in docker container (which is part of the dev containers setup I'm using anyway), a makefile (justfile) with shortcuts, and feed the rules with essential shortcuts or even entire justfile. for now it's good enough, but it's not the point.

it's a common functionality which i would be happy to have from the box rather than making hacks