list_jobs
List the background jobs being tracked (every status), newest first.
How to use it
list_jobs is exposed by the Rutherford MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the list_jobs tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
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rutherford-mcp-serverOther tools in Rutherford MCP Server (16)
Show only the jobs in flight right now, each with a live elapsed time.
Run an offline report over the kept run corpus (e.g. historicalagreement cross-lineage agreement).
Cancel a running background job and tear down its work.
List the registered agents (id, display name, launch command, provider) — the cheap snapshot.
Ask the same prompt of several agents in parallel; return every voice.
Resume or build on a completed durable job (delegate / consensus / debate) with a new prompt.
Have several agents argue across rounds (persistent sessions) and return the full transcript.
Hand one task to one ACP agent; get one normalized result back.
Detect installed ACP agents from the community registry and propose reviewable config blocks.
Probe each agent with a real read-only ACP round trip and report conformance.
Return a finished job's result envelope (identical to the sync envelope).
Report one background job's status and timings.
List the role personas you can pass as role="<id>".
Produce an implementation plan for a task without making changes (read-only by construction).
Reload the named multi-agent panel definitions from config without restarting the server.
Review a diff or a working dir's changes across one or more agents — a code-review-shaped consensus.