status

status is a command for Claude Code from aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch. It costs 12 tokens per session (569 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for checking the state of the Claude Nights Watch background service, which monitors and runs scheduled tasks. It shows whether the service is running, waiting, or stopped, along with configuration and recent activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the service process, task and rules files, scheduled start time, recent log entries, and the next expected execution.
Why use it?
It provides a quick view of whether the service is working and what it has done recently. This avoids having to inspect process details and logs separately.

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 Use it to check the service process, task and rules files, scheduled start time, recent log entries, and the next expected execution.

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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 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 569 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 $0.00012 $0.00569
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00284
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00057

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8c2dd0ced394, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

status 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 8d 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/status.md · 81 lines

What it actually says

Nights Watch Status

Displays comprehensive status information about the Claude Nights Watch daemon, including running state, configuration, and recent activity.

Usage

/nights-watch status

Information Displayed

Daemon State

  • Running/Stopped: Current daemon status
  • PID: Process ID if running
  • Activity Status:
    • ✅ ACTIVE - Currently monitoring and executing tasks
    • ⏰ WAITING - Waiting for scheduled start time

Configuration

  • Task File: Location and line count of task.md
  • Rules File: Location and line count of rules.md (if present)
  • Start Time: Scheduled start time (if configured)
  • Time Until Start: Countdown if waiting for scheduled time

Execution Info

  • Recent Activity: Last 5 log entries
  • Next Execution: Estimated time until next task execution
  • Time Since Last Activity: Hours/minutes since last Claude usage

Status Indicators

  • ✅ ACTIVE - Daemon is running and monitoring
  • ⏰ WAITING - Daemon is running but waiting for start time
  • ❌ STOPPED - Daemon is not running

Examples

Check daemon status:

/nights-watch status

Sample Output:

[INFO] Daemon is running with PID 12345
[INFO] Status: ✅ ACTIVE - Task execution monitoring enabled

[TASK] Task file: /path/to/task.md (42 lines)
[TASK] Rules file: /path/to/rules.md (106 lines)

[INFO] Recent activity:
  [2025-10-11 14:30:00] Daemon started
  [2025-10-11 14:30:05] Task file loaded
  [2025-10-11 14:30:10] Monitoring began
  [2025-10-11 14:35:00] Next check in 10 minutes
  [2025-10-11 14:45:00] Time remaining: 234 minutes

[INFO] Estimated time until next task execution: 3h 54m

Implementation

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/claude-nights-watch-manager.sh status

See Also

  • /nights-watch start - Start the daemon
  • /nights-watch logs - View detailed logs
  • /nights-watch task - View current task configuration
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. 8d ago First seen · 81 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 8c2dd0ced394

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status is a command published in the GitHub repository aniketkarne/ClaudeNightsWatch (370 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 569 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.