# nightshift Nightshift is a plugin for **Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor**. [](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugins_6a7c58f65d708191b3a705a8625baffe) [](https://hol.org/registry/plugins/orwa-mahmoud%2Fnightshift)

Shipped with Nightshift

Nightshift built Nightshift. Its initial shift produced the plugin’s clock-out gate, hooks, and commands. The build record pairs the original punch list with the commits. A later Codex shift completed 11 maintenance items on one branch, with one commit per item, and shipped in v0.9.2. Original build and commits · Maintenance receipts · Merged PR #53

Two agents worked the same plan. When the Claude Code session ran out of allowance, the maintainer stopped it. Ten minutes later, Cursor resumed on the same branch with the same punch list. The shift spanned 45 elapsed hours. After review and further fixes, the maintainer merged 67 commits and closed 57 issues. Handoff timeline · Merged PR #353

For a smaller run, follow the nine-item shift that shipped inline editing and row grouping in AdaptTable v1.2.0. Overnight punch list · Merged PR #75

Install

It installs as a native plugin, with no separate app, service, or API key. It runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows, in any project on your disk: a Git repository, or a plain folder for work that isn't code, such as a research report.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add orwa-mahmoud/nightshift
/plugin install nightshift@nightshift

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add orwa-mahmoud/nightshift
codex plugin add nightshift@nightshift

Then review and trust its hooks, with /hooks in the CLI or, in the Codex app, the Review hooks button (the hook icon in the message box) or Settings → Hooks.

Cursor

Open Customize → Add → From GitHub Repository, paste https://github.com/orwa-mahmoud/nightshift, select Import, and install Nightshift from the imported marketplace.

Installation and host support

Your first shift

Open the project you want to work on and run /nightshift:setup. Answer a few questions to set your preferences. What Setup asks

Plan

Enter the plan room with /nightshift:plan, continue one of your plans or start a new one with a name, and describe what you want in your own words: a feature, a refactor, a bug, a whole backlog, or GitHub issues you stage with /nightshift:import-issues. Your project code stays read-only while the room is open, so the agent can't jump into implementing while you're still brainstorming. It reads the relevant code, tests, and history, explains what each approach buys you, and turns what you agree on into punch list items.

When you enter the room, the agent asks you once, up front:

• Which plan: continue one of your plans, or start a new one and name it.
• How to brainstorm: whether you want an edge-case pass for the cases each item can meet, a pre-mortem on how the plan could fail, an ordering and risk check, or research on the open questions.
• Whether to suggest evidence: proof that fits each item, picked from the evidence catalog, such as screenshots at named widths for a layout change, before-and-after figures for a speed-up, or a sample request and the schema diff for an API change. If you want it, you also choose whether a missing file is hard-checked, holding the item open until it exists, only reported on the receipt, or not checked at all.

Pick any or none. What you pick is applied as each item takes shape; with none, these never come up again unless you ask. Every suggestion is yours to keep, edit, or drop. As the list nears completion, Nightshift estimates working time and token usage from your past receipts. For an item likely to get stuck, the agent offers a budget in working time, tokens, or both, and says why. At the soft limit the agent is told to finish the item. At the hard limit it can only commit the work in progress, write the receipt, and move on to the next item. Item budgets

Each plan is its own file, a complete punch list with its own contract and checks, so plans never mix. Each item is written to it as soon as you agree with it, and edited in place as the discussion moves. The plan record keeps decisions, rejected options, and open questions, so a new day or a closed tab picks up exactly where you stopped. Inside the plan room

Execute

When you’re ready, run /nightshift:start. If the punch list has open items, the agent works those. If it is empty, Start offers your plans by name, and any staged items, and runs the one you pick. Prepare several plans, then run them one after another.

A shift runs one of two ways:

• Work a list. The agent takes the agreed items one by one and the shift ends at the last tick. A deadline is optional and only caps it.
• Work toward a goal until quitting time. Run /nightshift:hunt, give it a goal and the hours, and the agent keeps working in complete units until the deadline. At quitting time it finishes the unit in hand and starts no new one.

You don't need a backlog to start. Nightshift ships 32 ready-made shifts: four open-ended ones, coverage hunt, defect hunt, product evolution, and your own objective, plus 28 finite ones such as dependency upgrades, vulnerability sweeps, flaky-test repair, accessibility repair, documentation drift, and release readiness. Pick entries yourself or let Hunt choose them for your goal, and review the composed shift first or run it directly. /nightshift:quality surveys tests, accessibility, dependencies, and other quality debt, and you choose what to fix now or draft for later. Ready-made shifts · Shift modes

While the shift runs, /nightshift:status shows the open item, the deadline, parked decisions, snags, and whether the watchman is on duty. Decisions go in the parking lot with the default the agent used and its reason. Use /nightshift:stop to pause and keep unfinished items open. /nightshift:doctor diagnoses the workspace and changes nothing. Preparing for an unattended shift

Review

Open the morning receipt to see how the shift ended, which changes to inspect first, which decisions need your attention, and what the whole shift cost: working time, paused time, and tokens. Follow an item to see what the agent delivered, what it tried and rejected, which checks ran, any checks it couldn’t run, and the time and tokens that item took, session by session. Both come from the host’s own records, never the agent’s estimate. Example receipts · Reading the morning receipt · How usage is measured

You choose the evidence and judge the result. For a layout change, open the screenshot and check the interaction yourself. For a performance change, compare the before-and-after measurements. If you require a named file, the gate checks that it exists. Evidence options

Run /nightshift:archive to file the shift into its own folder, with its receipts and evidence. Open items and unanswered decisions stay in the live files for the next shift. Archive and continue

What else Nightshift handles

Make it yours

Write your own receipt templates, morning summaries, and evidence instructions, with the headings, wording, and layout you want. Add, replace, or remove checks. Create shifts, evidence entries, and edge-case packs for the way you work. The shipped templates are starting points you can change.

Open /nightshift:customize to see every setting, template, and catalog entry on one screen, or edit the files directly. Keep a workflow with one project or put it in your personal catalog to use across repositories. An entry with the same name as a shipped one replaces it. Settings and catalogs · Create your own catalog entry

Contributing

• Share a workflow that works for you. Turn a recurring task into a shift others can use, whether it works on a Git repository or a folder of research, documents, or other deliverables. Share the idea or contribute the Markdown entry. Shift ideas and contributions · #21
• Share how you judge the work. A screenshot, benchmark, recording, or another artifact can help someone review a change. Contribute your way of capturing it as an evidence entry. Evidence ideas and contributions · #219
• Share your checks and edge cases. Bring the commands that catch problems in your stack, or the cases you always test before shipping. Add a gate stack or an edge-case pack. Checks and edge cases · #220
• Share what your shift delivered. Link the requested work, the result, and what you found in review. Successful runs, interrupted shifts, and things you had to fix all help. Run receipts · #22
• Build an improvement to Nightshift. Have an idea that makes Nightshift more useful? Build it and open a pull request, or propose the enhancement for discussion. Contribute a change · Propose an enhancement

Contribution guide · Where to contribute code

If Nightshift is useful to you, star the repository to help other developers discover it.

Documentation

Documentation index · Website · Command reference · Troubleshooting · Remote SSH and devcontainers

License

MIT © Orwa Mahmoud