How to
Keep a dev server running
Run a dev server in the background while you and the agent keep working.
1. Start it
Ask the agent:
start the dev serverA dev server doesn't end, so the agent starts it in the background and the turn goes on. A line above the prompt shows it while it runs:
If the agent started it in the foreground and the turn is waiting on it, press ctrl+b once the working line offers it.
See Run work in the background.
2. Keep working against it
The agent can use the running server, for example to check a change:
add a /health route and check it with curl against the dev server3. Look at its output
Press alt+4, or type /tasks. The panel shows the latest output of the task you're on; press enter to see all of
it, following its end. esc goes back.
When the server fails, the conversation says so, such as [!] Background pnpm dev · failed after 41s · exit 1, and
the agent looks at what went wrong.
4. Stop it
Press alt+4, move to the task and press x.