Show live long-task progress as one Discord/Telegram card that is edited in place. Use when a task will take more than a couple of minutes or many items (research, enrichment, batch writes).
Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.
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name: long-task-progress
description: Show live long-task progress as one Discord/Telegram card that is edited in place. Use when a task will take more than a couple of minutes or many items (research, enrichment, batch writes).
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# Long-task progress card
Stay in this parent turn. Do not spawn Agent/Task children and exit.
Post **one** card. Edit that card. Never send a new "running…" message each tick.
```bash
# first tick
~/session-warden/bin/progress-card.sh start \
--agent "$AGENT" \
--channel "$SESSION_KEY" \
--title "short task name" \
--done 0 --total N \
--now "what you are doing" \
--sheet-url "$SHEET_URL"
# every 5 items, or when blocked, or when finished
~/session-warden/bin/progress-card.sh update \
--agent "$AGENT" \
--channel "$SESSION_KEY" \
--done K --total N \
--now "current item"
~/session-warden/bin/progress-card.sh done \
--agent "$AGENT" \
--channel "$SESSION_KEY" \
--done N --total N \
--now "finished"
```
`$SESSION_KEY` is the OpenClaw session key (example: `agent:dash:discord:channel:123`). Discord is inferred from that key. Set `--telegram-target` or `WARDEN_PROGRESS_TELEGRAM_TARGET` to fan out.
The helper throttles: at most one edit per 45s, or every 5 items, whichever comes first. `start`, `done`, and `blocked` always send.
Live cards include **Stop** and **Steer**. Clicks are handled by `progress-card-actions` (not a new message). Stop aborts the current run. Steer asks for a correction; the next message injects it. `done` drops those buttons.
The results sheet is the work artifact. The card is the live indicator. Do not use a sheet as the "still going?" UI.
