WhileWait - earn while you wait

Your AI is thinking. You're earning. WhileWait shows clearly labelled, low-interruption sponsored messages during the moments you're already waiting - an agent run, a long generation, a slow build - and rewards you with credits for every verified view and click, redeemable for vouchers or cash. Available redemption options and their credit prices are shown at redemption time.

• Opt-in only. Nothing runs until you say so; one click turns it off.
• Privacy is structural. Waiting detection uses VS Code's official terminal shell-integration events and matches executable names only - your prompts, code, and command lines never leave your machine, and an automated test suite enforces it.
• Always labelled. Every placement starts with Ad:. No popups, no sounds, no focus stealing.
• Transparent ledger. Earnings land in an auditable double-entry ledger; watch holds mature and redeem from the sidebar or the web dashboard.

Commands

• WhileWait: Sign in
• WhileWait: Sign out
• WhileWait: Open sidebar
• WhileWait: Refresh sponsored slot
• WhileWait: Open current sponsor
• WhileWait: Open dashboard
• WhileWait: Set India payout profile
• WhileWait: Request payout
• WhileWait: Open privacy policy
• WhileWait: Open terms
• WhileWait: Toggle sponsored slot

Waiting-moment detection

WhileWait detects when an AI tool (Claude Code, aider, Codex, Gemini CLI, ollama, Copilot CLI) is running in an integrated terminal, using VS Code's official shell-integration events. Detection matches the executable name only and immediately discards the command line - commands, prompts, and code never leave your machine (enforced by an automated payload-allowlist test). Confirmed waits longer than 10 seconds refresh the sponsored slot so the wait earns credits. Inspect exactly what detection saw and transmitted with WhileWait: Show detection diagnostics, or turn it off with the whilewait.waitingDetection setting.

Data collection and telemetry

WhileWait only tracks ad delivery on surfaces it owns:

• Sponsored messages always carry an explicit Ad: label in the status bar.
• The extension sends ad metric events only (render, valid view, click) with an anonymous client id, ad/campaign/session ids, and timing. Events that fail to send are queued locally and replayed; duplicates are rejected server-side.
• No source code, prompts, terminal output, file contents, or clipboard contents are ever collected.
• Nothing is tracked until you accept the consent prompt, and the sponsored slot can be disabled at any time with WhileWait: Toggle sponsored slot.

Policies: use WhileWait: Open privacy policy and WhileWait: Open terms (URLs configurable via whilewait.privacyUrl / whilewait.termsUrl).

Local API

Start the API first:

npm run build -w @whilewait/api
npm run dev -w @whilewait/api

Default API base is http://127.0.0.1:8787.