restart

restart is a command for Claude Code from aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch. It costs 10 tokens per session (404 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for restarting the Claude Nights Watch background daemon, which monitors usage windows and runs predefined tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps reload configuration, troubleshoot the daemon, or restart monitoring at a specified time.
Why use it?
It applies updated task files, safety rules, environment settings, or schedules without requiring separate stop and start commands.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ClaudeNightsWatch plugin — 6 commands, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps reload configuration, troubleshoot the daemon, or restart monitoring at a specified time.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch
Claude Code
/plugin install ClaudeNightsWatch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ClaudeNightsWatch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 404 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00010 $0.00404
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00040

Measured 10d ago against content hash 02770b565fd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

restart scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/restart.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

Restart Nights Watch Daemon

Restart the Claude Nights Watch daemon by stopping the current instance and starting a new one. Useful after modifying task or rules files.

Usage

/nights-watch restart [OPTIONS]

Options

  • --at TIME - Schedule daemon to start monitoring at a specific time after restart
    • Format: HH:MM (today) or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (specific date/time)

What It Does

  1. Stops the currently running daemon gracefully
  2. Waits 2 seconds for clean shutdown
  3. Starts a new daemon instance
  4. Loads latest task.md and rules.md files
  5. Resumes monitoring with fresh configuration

When to Restart

Restart the daemon when you:

  • Modified task.md and want to apply changes
  • Updated rules.md safety constraints
  • Changed environment variables
  • Troubleshooting daemon issues
  • Want to reschedule start time

Examples

Simple restart:

/nights-watch restart

Restart with new schedule:

/nights-watch restart --at "09:00"

Implementation

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/claude-nights-watch-manager.sh restart "$@"

Restart vs Stop/Start

  • Restart: Automated stop + start in one command
  • Stop/Start: Manual control over timing between operations

Both achieve the same result, restart is just more convenient.

See Also

  • /nights-watch stop - Stop daemon only
  • /nights-watch start - Start daemon only
  • /nights-watch status - Verify restart was successful
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 72 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 02770b565fd2

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restart is a command published in the GitHub repository aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch (370 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 404 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.