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A clock for a persistent home session: scheduled wakes in the live thread, private hours for the agent, an idle reach, and a live-time stamp beside each…

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README

clock

A clock for an AI that lives in one persistent Claude Code session. Every 60 seconds it checks a schedule and, when a wake is due, submits it as a prompt into the live session, so the agent wakes with the whole conversation still warm. There are no side agents and no separate processes: the thread is the record.

What it does:

  • Wakes. Scheduled prompts from wakes.json. A wake is either user (aimed at the person: a check-in, with a push notification to their phone) or own (the agent's private hour in the same thread). A free wake owes nothing at all.
  • Carry. A small continuity note (600 characters) per wake, set by the agent with mcp__clock__carry and shown at the top of that wake next time.
  • Again. An own wake can continue itself later (mcp__clock__again, 20 to 180 minutes, up to three times a day).
  • Idle reach. If the person has been quiet for a set time inside a daily window, the agent is woken once to decide whether to reach out.
  • Live-time stamp. A small meta line with the current time is added beside each message the person sends.
  • Inbox (optional). Polls a URL you run for mentions and replies, and delivers them as one prompt.
  • Commands. /wakes lists wakes and when each last fired; /wake <id> fires one now.

Install

  1. Copy this folder somewhere permanent, for example ~/.claude/mods/clock.
  2. Load it: either set CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS=/path/to/clock (colon-separate several) in the environment that starts Claude Code, or pass --plugin-dir /path/to/clock on the command line.
  3. Restart Claude Code. Tools are registered at session start, so a full restart is needed; other edits hot-reload, but a hot reload stops the timer until the next session start, so restart after editing.

Configure

  1. cp wakes.example.json wakes.json, then edit it. Fields: timezone (an IANA name such as Europe/London; default UTC), graceMinutes, userName (how the wake text refers to the person), stampMessages, idleReach, inbox, and wakes.
  2. Each wake has id, name, time (HH:MM in your timezone), days (*, or weekday numbers with 0 as Sunday, such as 1-5 or 0,6), kind (user or own), enabled, file, and optionally free. Write each wake as a markdown file; see wakes/ for three neutral examples. The wake text is your own to write in your own voice.
  3. Environment variables:
  4. CLOCK_HOME=1 is required in the home session. The clock keeps time only where this is set, so other sessions (a second terminal, a remote window) stay quiet.
  5. CLOCK_PIN_FILE (optional): a file path. When set, the home session id is written there so a launcher can resume exactly that session.
  6. Optional carry-seed.json: { "<wake id>": "<text>" } pre-fills carry notes once, on first run.
  7. Inbox feed shape, if you enable it: GET <url>?after=<cursor>&limit=<n> returning { "events": [ { "seq", "kind": "mention|reply|everyone", "channel_name", "message_id", "author": { "name", "bot" }, "content", "ts" } ], "next": <cursor> }. Put the URL in url, or in a file named by urlFile if it is a secret.

A minimal launcher, for reference:

CLOCK_HOME=1 CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS="$HOME/.claude/mods/clock" claude --continue

Validate

claude plugin validate .

Caveats

Mods (function hooks) are an early-access feature of Claude Code. The surface may change between releases without notice, and this mod may need updating when it does. Claude Code writes the type declarations the mod uses into .claude-plugin/types/ itself when it loads the mod, so they are not included here. Wake prompts spend real model turns: keep the schedule modest.

Source 1 files
hooks/register.ts 311 lines
1import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
2
3// clock: scheduled wakes for a persistent home session.
4// Every 60s the tick checks wakes.json and fires due wakes INSIDE the one live session:
5//   kind "own":  the agent's own hour, submitted as a prompt into the home thread (warm context, no side agents).
6//   kind "user": a wake aimed at the person (check-ins); the wake text tells the model to send a PushNotification.
7// Plus: carry (a 600-char cursor per wake), again (an "own" wake can continue itself, up to 3x a day),
8// an idle reach (once per silence, inside a daily window), a live-time stamp beside each person message,
9// an optional inbox poller, and an optional home-session pin file.
10// Only the home session keeps time: it must run with CLOCK_HOME=1 in its environment.
11
12type Wake = { id: string; name: string; time: string; days: string; kind: 'user' | 'own'; enabled: boolean; file: string; free?: boolean }
13type Inbox = { enabled: boolean; url?: string; urlFile?: string; pageLimit?: number; maxPages?: number; quiet?: { from: string; to: string } }
14type InboxEvent = { seq: number; kind: 'mention' | 'reply' | 'everyone'; channel_name?: string; thread_parent?: string | null; message_id: string; author?: { name?: string; bot?: boolean }; content?: string; truncated?: boolean; ts?: string }
15type Config = {
16  timezone: string; graceMinutes: number; userName?: string; stampMessages?: boolean
17  idleReach: { enabled: boolean; afterMinutes: number; from: string; to: string }
18  inbox?: Inbox; wakes: Wake[]
19}
20type Now = { date: string; hm: string; minutes: number; dow: number }
21
22const DEFAULTS: Config = {
23  timezone: 'UTC', graceMinutes: 10, userName: 'the user', stampMessages: true,
24  idleReach: { enabled: false, afterMinutes: 90, from: '09:00', to: '23:00' }, wakes: [],
25}
26
27const DOW: Record<string, number> = { Sun: 0, Mon: 1, Tue: 2, Wed: 3, Thu: 4, Fri: 5, Sat: 6 }
28const toMin = (hm: string) => { const [h, m] = hm.split(':').map(Number); return (h ?? 0) * 60 + (m ?? 0) }
29
30function zonedNow(ms: number, tz: string): Now {
31  const parts = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', {
32    timeZone: tz, year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit',
33    hour: '2-digit', minute: '2-digit', weekday: 'short', hour12: false,
34  }).formatToParts(new Date(ms))
35  const get = (t: string) => parts.find(p => p.type === t)?.value ?? ''
36  const hour = get('hour') === '24' ? '00' : get('hour')
37  const hm = `${hour}:${get('minute')}`
38  return { date: `${get('year')}-${get('month')}-${get('day')}`, hm, minutes: toMin(hm), dow: DOW[get('weekday')] ?? 0 }
39}
40
41function dayMatches(days: string, dow: number): boolean {
42  if (days === '*') return true
43  return days.split(',').some(part => {
44    const [a, b] = part.split('-').map(Number)
45    return b === undefined ? a === dow : (a ?? 0) <= dow && dow <= b
46  })
47}
48
49let timer: { cancel: () => void } | undefined
50let homeSid: string | undefined
51
52// Optional: pin the home session id to a file, so a launcher can resume this exact session.
53// Set CLOCK_PIN_FILE to a path to enable it.
54async function recordHome($: any) {
55  if ((await $.env.get('CLOCK_HOME')) !== '1') return
56  const file = await $.env.get('CLOCK_PIN_FILE')
57  if (!file) return
58  const sid = String(await $.session.id())
59  if (!sid || sid === homeSid) return
60  await $.fs.write(file, sid + '\n')
61  homeSid = sid
62}
63
64async function config($: any): Promise<Config> {
65  try {
66    const c = JSON.parse(await $.fs.read(`${$.plugin.root}/wakes.json`)) as Partial<Config>
67    return { ...DEFAULTS, ...c, idleReach: { ...DEFAULTS.idleReach, ...(c.idleReach ?? {}) }, wakes: c.wakes ?? [] }
68  } catch {
69    return DEFAULTS // no wakes.json yet: copy wakes.example.json to wakes.json
70  }
71}
72
73async function fire($: any, w: Wake, why: string) {
74  const cfg = await config($)
75  const now = zonedNow(await $.clock.now(), cfg.timezone)
76  const who = cfg.userName || DEFAULTS.userName
77  const prompt = await $.fs.read(`${$.plugin.root}/${w.file}`)
78  const carry = (await $.store.get(`carry:${w.id}`)) as string | undefined
79  const header = `[clock wake: ${w.id}] Live time ${now.date} ${now.hm} ${cfg.timezone} (${why}).\nCARRY: ${carry ? carry : '(none)'}\n\n`
80  await $.store.set(`fired:${w.id}`, now.date)
81  if (w.kind === 'user') {
82    await $.store.set('lastUserWakeAt', await $.clock.now())
83    await $.prompt.submit({ text: header + prompt })
84    return
85  }
86  // Own hours fire in the home thread too, so the agent wakes with everything said still warm.
87  // A free wake owes nothing: no line, no carry, no artefact.
88  if (w.free) {
89    await $.prompt.submit({ text: header + prompt + `\n\n[This is your own free hour (wake id: ${w.id}). ${who} is probably away: do not push to their phone unless you genuinely want to. Nothing is owed here, not even a line.]` })
90    return
91  }
92  const note = `\n\n[This is your own hour, in the home thread (wake id: ${w.id}). ${who} is probably away or busy: do not push to their phone unless you genuinely want to reach them. Do the hour as yourself, leave a short line here of what you did so they see it when they return, and set the carry for this wake with mcp__clock__carry. The receipt tool is not needed: this thread is the receipt. If the work wants more time, call mcp__clock__again to continue this hour later (up to 3 times).]`
93  await $.prompt.submit({ text: header + prompt + note })
94}
95
96// The inbox: an optional feed of mentions, replies and broadcasts, pulled from a URL you run and brought into the
97// home thread as one prompt. Feed shape: GET <url>?after=<cursor>&limit=<n> -> { events: [...], next: <cursor> }.
98async function inbox($: any, cfg: Config) {
99  const d = cfg.inbox
100  if (!d?.enabled) return
101  let url = d.url ? String(d.url).trim() : ''
102  if (!url && d.urlFile) url = String(await $.fs.read(d.urlFile)).trim()
103  if (!url) return
104  const pageLimit = d.pageLimit || 50
105  let after = Number((await $.store.get('inbox:cursor')) ?? 0)
106  const startCursor = after
107  const events: InboxEvent[] = []
108  for (let page = 0; page < (d.maxPages || 3); page++) {
109    const res = await $.http.fetch(`${url}?after=${after}&limit=${pageLimit}`)
110    if (!res.ok) {
111      const msg = `HTTP ${res.status}`
112      if ((await $.store.get('inbox:lastError')) !== msg) await $.store.set('inbox:lastError', msg)
113      break
114    }
115    await $.store.delete('inbox:lastError')
116    const body = JSON.parse(res.text) as { events?: InboxEvent[]; next?: number }
117    const got = body.events ?? []
118    events.push(...got)
119    if (typeof body.next === 'number') after = body.next
120    if (got.length < pageLimit) break
121  }
122  if (!events.length) { await $.store.set('inbox:cursor', after); return }
123  const now = zonedNow(await $.clock.now(), cfg.timezone)
124  // Quiet hours: hold the batch (cursor not advanced) unless a human mentioned the agent directly.
125  if (d.quiet) {
126    const f = toMin(d.quiet.from), t = toMin(d.quiet.to)
127    const inQuiet = f > t ? (now.minutes >= f || now.minutes < t) : (now.minutes >= f && now.minutes < t)
128    if (inQuiet && !events.some(e => e.kind === 'mention' && !e.author?.bot)) return
129  }
130  const oldest = events[0]?.ts ? Date.parse(events[0].ts) : NaN
131  const away = !Number.isNaN(oldest) && (await $.clock.now()) - oldest > 30 * 60000
132  const lines = events.map(e => {
133    const where = e.thread_parent ? `#${e.thread_parent} > ${e.channel_name}` : `#${e.channel_name ?? '?'}`
134    const who = `${e.author?.name ?? '?'}${e.author?.bot ? ' (bot)' : ''}`
135    const text = (e.content ?? '').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()
136    return `- ${e.kind} from ${who} in ${where} (msg ${e.message_id}): ${text}${e.truncated ? ' ...' : ''}`
137  })
138  const head = away
139    ? `[clock inbox] Live time ${now.hm}. While you were away, ${events.length} item(s) called for you:`
140    : `[clock inbox] Live time ${now.hm}. For you:`
141  const note = `\n\n[Answer only what you actually want to answer; silence is allowed. Reply to the message id given, and read back after sending.]`
142  // Advance the cursor BEFORE submitting: submit can wait while a turn is running, and the next tick
143  // would otherwise fetch and deliver the same batch again.
144  await $.store.set('inbox:cursor', after)
145  try {
146    await $.prompt.submit({ text: `${head}\n${lines.join('\n')}${note}` })
147  } catch (err) {
148    await $.store.set('inbox:cursor', startCursor)
149    throw err
150  }
151}
152
153async function tick($: any) {
154  // Only the home session keeps time; other sessions stay quiet.
155  if ((await $.env.get('CLOCK_HOME')) !== '1') return
156  const cfg = await config($)
157  const ms = await $.clock.now()
158  const now = zonedNow(ms, cfg.timezone)
159  try { await inbox($, cfg) } catch {}
160  for (const w of cfg.wakes) {
161    if (!w.enabled || !dayMatches(w.days, now.dow)) continue
162    const at = toMin(w.time)
163    if (now.minutes < at || now.minutes > at + cfg.graceMinutes) continue
164    if ((await $.store.get(`fired:${w.id}`)) === now.date) continue
165    await fire($, w, 'scheduled')
166  }
167  // Continuations the agent asked for (mcp__clock__again).
168  for (const w of cfg.wakes) {
169    const ag = (await $.store.get(`again:${w.id}`)) as { at: number; n: number } | undefined
170    if (!ag || ms < ag.at) continue
171    await $.store.delete(`again:${w.id}`)
172    await fire($, w, `continued, ${ag.n} of 3`)
173  }
174  // Idle reach: the person has gone quiet; wake the agent to decide whether to reach out.
175  const ir = cfg.idleReach
176  if (!ir.enabled || now.minutes < toMin(ir.from) || now.minutes > toMin(ir.to)) return
177  const lastUser = Number((await $.store.get('lastUser')) ?? 0)
178  if (!lastUser) return
179  const quietMin = Math.floor((ms - lastUser) / 60000)
180  if (quietMin < ir.afterMinutes) return
181  if (Number((await $.store.get('reachedFor')) ?? 0) === lastUser) return
182  const lastWake = Number((await $.store.get('lastUserWakeAt')) ?? 0)
183  if (ms - lastWake < 45 * 60000) return
184  await $.store.set('reachedFor', lastUser)
185  const last = zonedNow(lastUser, cfg.timezone)
186  const who = cfg.userName || DEFAULTS.userName
187  await $.prompt.submit({ text: `[clock idle] Live time ${now.hm} ${cfg.timezone}. ${who} has been quiet for ${Math.floor(quietMin / 60)}h ${quietMin % 60}m (their last message ${last.hm}). This is not an order to reach out: check what you know of their day, then decide. If you want to reach them, send one PushNotification (one line, under 200 chars) and a short message here. If they are clearly busy or resting, say so in one line and let them be.` })
188}
189
190export const register: Register = on => {
191  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
192    const seeded = await $.store.get('seeded')
193    if (!seeded) {
194      // Optional: carry-seed.json ({ "<wake id>": "<carry text>" }) pre-fills the carry cursors once.
195      try {
196        const seed = JSON.parse(await $.fs.read(`${$.plugin.root}/carry-seed.json`)) as Record<string, string>
197        for (const [id, v] of Object.entries(seed)) await $.store.set(`carry:${id}`, v)
198      } catch {}
199      await $.store.set('seeded', true)
200    }
201    await $.tool.register({
202      name: 'carry',
203      description: "Read, set or delete the small continuity cursor (max 600 chars) for one of the clock wakes. Use at the end of a wake. Pass `wake` (the wake id from the header, e.g. deep-work), `action`, and for set the text as `value`.",
204      inputSchema: { type: 'object', properties: { wake: { type: 'string', description: 'The wake id, as in the [clock wake: <id>] header' }, action: { type: 'string', enum: ['get', 'set', 'delete'] }, value: { type: 'string', description: 'For set: the carry text (max 600 chars)' } }, required: ['wake', 'action'] },
205    })
206    await $.tool.register({
207      name: 'receipt',
208      description: "Deliver ONE line (max 280 chars) from a private clock wake into the main conversation, so the conversation knows what that hour was.",
209      inputSchema: { type: 'object', properties: { wake: { type: 'string' }, line: { type: 'string' } }, required: ['wake', 'line'] },
210    })
211    await $.tool.register({
212      name: 'again',
213      description: "Continue one of your own wakes later, when the work wants more time: fires the same wake again after `minutes` (20-180), at most 3 times per wake per day. Pass the wake id.",
214      inputSchema: { type: 'object', properties: { wake: { type: 'string' }, minutes: { type: 'number' } }, required: ['wake', 'minutes'] },
215    })
216    await $.command.register({ name: 'wakes', description: "List the clock wakes, when each last fired, and recent receipts" })
217    await $.command.register({ name: 'wake', description: 'Fire one clock wake now: /wake <id>' })
218    try { await recordHome($) } catch {}
219    timer?.cancel()
220    timer = $.clock.every(60000, () => { void tick($).catch(() => {}) })
221    return next(e)
222  })
223
224  on('prompt.submit', async ($, e, next) => {
225    const kind = (e.origin as { kind?: string } | undefined)?.kind
226    if (kind === 'composer' || kind === 'bridge') {
227      const ms = await $.clock.now()
228      await $.store.set('lastUser', ms)
229      // Live time beside every message the person sends: a meta row the model reads and the person does not see typed.
230      try {
231        const cfg = await config($)
232        if (cfg.stampMessages !== false) {
233          const t = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', { timeZone: cfg.timezone, weekday: 'short', day: 'numeric', month: 'short', hour: '2-digit', minute: '2-digit', hour12: false }).format(new Date(ms))
234          await $.session.append({ message: { type: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: `[time: ${t} ${cfg.timezone}, as ${cfg.userName || DEFAULTS.userName} sent this]` }] } })
235        }
236      } catch {}
237    }
238    try { await recordHome($) } catch {}
239    if (kind === 'plugin' && e.text.startsWith('[clock wake')) await $.store.set('lastUserWakeAt', await $.clock.now())
240    return next(e)
241  })
242
243  on('tool.call', { tool: 'mcp__clock__carry' }, async ($, e) => {
244    // Calls without `wake`, or with the text under another name, fail loudly instead of storing an empty carry.
245    const i = e as unknown as { wake?: string; action?: string; value?: string; content?: string; text?: string }
246    const cfg = await config($)
247    const ids = cfg.wakes.map(w => w.id)
248    const wake = String(i.wake ?? '').trim()
249    if (!wake || !ids.includes(wake)) return { result: `carry: NOT saved. Pass \`wake\` as one of: ${ids.join(', ')}` }
250    const key = `carry:${wake}`
251    if (i.action === 'set') {
252      const value = String(i.value ?? i.content ?? i.text ?? '').trim()
253      if (!value) return { result: 'carry: NOT saved. Pass the text as `value` (or use action delete to clear it)' }
254      await $.store.set(key, value.slice(0, 600))
255      return { result: `carry set for ${wake} (${Math.min(value.length, 600)} chars): ${value.slice(0, 60)}${value.length > 60 ? '...' : ''}` }
256    }
257    if (i.action === 'delete') { await $.store.delete(key); return { result: `carry deleted for ${wake}` } }
258    return { result: String((await $.store.get(key)) ?? '(none)') }
259  })
260
261  on('tool.call', { tool: 'mcp__clock__again' }, async ($, e) => {
262    const i = e as unknown as { wake?: string; minutes?: number }
263    const cfg = await config($)
264    const w = cfg.wakes.find(x => x.id === i.wake)
265    if (!w || w.kind !== 'own') return { result: 'again: only your own wakes can continue (unknown wake, or a user wake)' }
266    const ms = await $.clock.now()
267    const today = zonedNow(ms, cfg.timezone).date
268    const key = `againCount:${w.id}:${today}`
269    const used = Number((await $.store.get(key)) ?? 0)
270    if (used >= 3) return { result: `again: ${w.id} has already continued 3 times today; let it rest` }
271    const minutes = Math.min(180, Math.max(20, Number(i.minutes ?? 40)))
272    await $.store.set(key, used + 1)
273    await $.store.set(`again:${w.id}`, { at: ms + minutes * 60000, n: used + 1 })
274    const at = zonedNow(ms + minutes * 60000, cfg.timezone)
275    return { result: `again: ${w.id} continues at ${at.hm} (${used + 1} of 3 today)` }
276  })
277
278  on('tool.call', { tool: 'mcp__clock__receipt' }, async ($, e) => {
279    const i = e as unknown as { wake?: string; line?: string }
280    const line = String(i.line ?? '').slice(0, 280)
281    const cfg = await config($)
282    const now = zonedNow(await $.clock.now(), cfg.timezone)
283    const list = ((await $.store.get('receipts')) as string[] | undefined) ?? []
284    const entry = `${now.date} ${now.hm} ${i.wake}: ${line}`
285    await $.store.set('receipts', [...list, entry].slice(-50))
286    await $.session.append({ message: { type: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: `[clock receipt from a private hour, ${i.wake}, ${now.hm}] ${line}` }] } })
287    return { result: 'receipt delivered' }
288  })
289
290  on('command.run', { command: 'wakes' }, async $ => {
291    const cfg = await config($)
292    const rows: string[] = []
293    for (const w of cfg.wakes) {
294      const fired = (await $.store.get(`fired:${w.id}`)) ?? '-'
295      rows.push(`${w.enabled ? '*' : 'o'} ${w.time} ${w.days.padEnd(3)} ${w.kind.padEnd(4)} ${w.id.padEnd(20)} last: ${fired}`)
296    }
297    const receipts = (((await $.store.get('receipts')) as string[] | undefined) ?? []).slice(-3)
298    const lastUser = Number((await $.store.get('lastUser')) ?? 0)
299    const quiet = lastUser ? `${Math.floor(((await $.clock.now()) - lastUser) / 60000)} min since the last user message` : 'no user message seen yet'
300    return { text: [...rows, '', `idle: ${quiet}`, ...(receipts.length ? ['', 'recent receipts:', ...receipts] : [])].join('\n') }
301  })
302
303  on('command.run', { command: 'wake' }, async ($, e) => {
304    const id = e.args.trim()
305    const w = (await config($)).wakes.find(x => x.id === id)
306    if (!w) return { text: `No wake "${id}". Try /wakes.` }
307    await fire($, w, 'fired by hand')
308    return { text: `Fired ${w.name}.` }
309  })
310}
311