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. Claude models wear orange letters and open claude --model; the OpenAI ones (Sol, Terra, Luna, mini — tick them in the picker) wear blue letters and open a codex -m terminal, so the two S buttons — Sonnet and Sol — are never mistaken for each other. 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.*

A command Claude left running in the background counts as unfinished too — Claude is re-invoked when it exits — so a build in flight keeps its light 🟡 and holds all three gears, for up to chutdown.shellMinutes (default 60).

And a session that stops to ask something need not stop the night: with the gear armed Chutdown answers for you after chutdown.autoAnswerMinutes (default 5) — one Enter, taking the option the dialog has highlighted. On by default for the armed gear only, opt-in for the other three, and chutdown.autoAnswerScope: "questions" keeps it away from permission prompts and plans. Both hovers say what is about to be pressed, and when. Details →

The footer bar — every session at a glance

:

*See all your claude tasks and status:

1. 🟢 Processing task.
2. 🟠 Requires prompt.
3. 🟡 A command it started is still running — it will pick itself back up.
4. 🔴 Task has finished.

The light for the tab you have selected wears a › in front of it, at every size the bar compacts to.

Hover to see the task details — the latest output, plus the prompt it started on, the two you sent in between (↓ lines), and the one you last sent, in the order you typed them; click to jump to it. The hover's links copy it, rename it, open its raw transcript, and — when the session has a tab in this window — close that tab, which folds the light into idle without losing anything. Initial tasks are renamed based on the initial prompt.* Details →

On a crowded afternoon the bar compacts itself rather than falling off the right edge: the launch buttons drop to their letters, then the names shorten, then the lights are just lights — the hover keeps the full name. chutdown.statusBarBudget sets how much room it gets before that starts (0 = never). 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, including the four OpenAI models under their own heading (blue letters, launched with codex -m). 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