Walking Away from Long Processes
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You don't need to stare at the progress circles page. There are several ways Content Chimera supports you in walking away from long running jobs:

* Working across devices
* Monitoring from your AI assistant (MCP)
* Getting back to the progress page
* Sound alerts for major changes
* The favicon and tab text
* Email notification upon completion

Working across devices
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You can work on Content Chimera from your laptop, desktop, tablet, or phone. You can start a crawl on your way to the client site, and then open your laptop once on site to show the 
overview of the site. 

Monitoring from your AI assistant (MCP)
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If you use Content Chimera through an MCP-connected AI assistant (such as Claude, ChatGPT,
or another compatible tool), you can start long-running jobs --- crawls, summarization,
graph loading --- directly from your conversation. After kicking off a job, ask your
assistant to check on it:

   *"Check the status of that crawl"*

Your assistant will report back with the current step, progress counts, and a link to the
live status page in the web UI. You can ask as many times as you like --- there is no need
to keep the conversation open continuously.

For **live, dynamic updates** --- a continuously updating progress display with sound
alerts when the job finishes or fails --- you will need to open the status page in your
browser. Your AI assistant will include this URL when it reports status, so you can click
through whenever you want the full real-time view.

.. raw:: html

   <details>
   <summary>Tool reference</summary>
   <p>Tool: <code class="docutils literal notranslate">job-status</code></p>
   <pre>job_chain_id: 5678   — check a specific job
   extent_id: 1234      — see all jobs for an extent</pre>
   </details>


Getting back to the progress page
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If you close the tab that had the progress of the long-running job, you can always get back to it from your `My History page <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/user/history>`_.

.. image:: ../images/my-history-selection.png

Sound alerts for major changes
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If you leave the progress page open in a background tab and leave your sound on, then you will get a sound in the event of: a) a `major failure <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/audio/music_timpani_error_05.wav>`_ (causing the whole process to end), b) a `warning <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/audio/music_piano_warning>`_ (for instance if you met your URL limit or you successfully stopped a job manually), or c) when the job is `successfully complete <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/audio/music_flute_welcome.wav>`_.

The favicon and tab text
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If you leave the progress page open in the background tab, you will see informative information in the browser tab header. For instance, when a job is running you will see this, with a pie chart showing overall progress (especially useful when you have a ton of pages open so can't see the tab text) and text showing percent complete: 

.. image:: ../images/fi-progress.png

Note that this is showing the percentage complete for each step. So you may be at 90% done on the first step of processing but still have a lot of time remaining on next steps.

When the process is successfully complete:

.. image:: ../images/fi-success.png

When the process has failed:

.. image:: ../images/fi-failure.png

When you requested that a job stopped and it did stop: 

.. image:: ../images/fi-warning.png

Email notification upon completion
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You will be notified by email when a job is complete. The email has a link to the progress page.

.. image:: ../images/completion-email.png
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