Chutdown

Shutdown your computer(or notify) when all tasks are finished, run terminal servers minimized, launch a specific claude model 50% faster than claude code, See the progress of your current sessions (and idle sessions), see your claude usage at all times.

Launch buttons

One click per model, 2x faster loading time and 100x faster than running /models. Details →

View usage instantly

See your /usage limits, without leaving the status bar — and click the meter to step past a limit that is already spent, so a weekly window at 0% left stops being the only number you can see. Details →

off / sound / notify / shutdown

*When your sessions finish:

1. stay quiet.
2. chime.
3. pop up a notification.
4. turn off computer.

read from the transcript's own stop_reason, never guessed from silence.* Details →

The footer bar — every session at a glance

:

*See all your claude tasks and status:

1. 🟢 Processing task.
2. 🟠 Requires prompt.
3. 🔴 Task has finished.

Hover to see the task details — the latest output, plus the prompt it started on and the one you last sent; click to jump to it. Initial tasks are renamed based on the initial prompt.* Details →

Old sessions turn idle but still redeemable — one click to run again, no claude --resume picker. Details →

Terminals

"npm run start" your project with one click and allow agents to restart the app as well. Details →

.terminals — batch multiple processes as well.

{
  "dev": "npm run dev",                                                // workspace root
  "web": { "cmd": "npm run dev", "port": 3000 },                       // root too, with a port probe
  "api": { "cmd": "npm run dev", "cwd": "packages/api", "port": 4000 } // custom folder
}

cwd is the only thing that picks a folder: leave it out, like web above, and the entry runs in the workspace root. A one-line syntax is read too, so a single app in the folder you are already in is one line — name:port = command, no folder anywhere:

dev:3000 = npm run dev

Declare your dev servers once: each gets a light with its latest log in the hover, its port is freed before launch, and one button stops them all.

And the agent in the repo can restart them itself — no mouse, no asking you to click:

code --open-url "vscode://d8a.chutdown/restart?name=web&ws=C:/path/to/this/folder"

/start, /stop and /restart, all of them or one by name, straight from the shell your session already has. It edits a file, it restarts the server, it re-reads the log in the hover. Details →

Choose your favorite models

Choose models — Choose what models you want to show and hover to see their use-case. The buttons you start with follow your plan — no Fable button on a Pro account with no usage credits — and the picker still lets you tick anything. Details →

Install

Requirements: VS Code 1.93+, and the Claude Code CLI installed and signed in.

From the Marketplace — search Chutdown in the Extensions view, or from a terminal:

code --install-extension d8a.chutdown

From a .vsix — download it from the latest release

git clone https://github.com/D8Acom/Chutdown.git