setup

setup is a command for coding agents from aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch. It costs 8 tokens per session (774 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive setup wizard for Claude Nights Watch, a tool that monitors and runs Claude tasks. It checks prerequisites and helps create task, safety-rule, and monitoring settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Claude Nights Watch for the first time, change its task or safety rules, set monitoring preferences, or choose when its background process starts.
Why use it?
It avoids having to assemble the initial configuration by hand and shows whether required tools and permissions are available.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

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

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/aniketkarne/claudenightswatch/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for setup

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/aniketkarne/claudenightswatch/setup.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/aniketkarne/claudenightswatch/setup)
Your own site
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Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 774 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00008 $0.00774
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00077

Measured 5d ago against content hash 47fb7348c647, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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 5d 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/setup.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nights Watch Setup Wizard

Launch the interactive setup wizard to configure Claude Nights Watch for the first time or modify existing configuration.

Usage

/nights-watch setup

Setup Process

The wizard guides you through:

1. Prerequisites Check

  • ✓ Verify Claude CLI is installed
  • ✓ Check for ccusage (for accurate timing)
  • ✓ Confirm required permissions

2. Task Configuration

  • Create or edit task.md file
  • Enter task instructions
  • Review and modify as needed

3. Safety Rules Configuration

  • Create or edit rules.md file
  • Choose from default safety templates
  • Customize rules for your project

4. Daemon Configuration

  • Choose to start daemon immediately or later
  • Optionally schedule a start time
  • Configure monitoring preferences

5. Summary

  • Review all configuration
  • Display available commands
  • Optionally start daemon

Interactive Prompts

================================
Claude Nights Watch Setup
================================

Checking prerequisites...
✓ Claude CLI found
! ccusage not found (will use time-based checking)
To install ccusage: npm install -g ccusage

=== Task Configuration ===
task.md already exists
Do you want to view/edit it? (y/n)

=== Safety Rules Configuration ===
Do you want to create safety rules? (recommended) (y/n)

=== Daemon Configuration ===
Do you want to start the daemon after setup? (y/n)
Do you want to schedule a start time? (y/n)
Enter start time (HH:MM for today, or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM):

=== Setup Complete ===
✓ Task file: /path/to/task.md
✓ Rules file: /path/to/rules.md
✓ Manager: /path/to/claude-nights-watch-manager.sh

Available commands:
  /nights-watch start    - Start the daemon
  /nights-watch stop     - Stop the daemon
  /nights-watch status   - Check daemon status
  /nights-watch logs     - View logs
  /nights-watch task     - View current task

Starting daemon...

What Gets Created

Files Created

  • task.md - Your task instructions (if doesn't exist)
  • rules.md - Safety rules (optional, if requested)
  • logs/ - Directory for daemon logs (on first start)

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 131 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 47fb7348c647

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setup is a command published in the GitHub repository aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch (370 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 774 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.