/restart

description: Restart the Claude Nights Watch daemon to apply configuration changes
usage: /nights-watch restart [--at TIME]
examples:
  - /nights-watch restart
  - /nights-watch restart --at "09:00"

Restart Nights Watch Daemon

Restart the Claude Nights Watch daemon by stopping the current instance and starting a new one. Useful after modifying task or rules files.

Usage

/nights-watch restart [OPTIONS]

Options

• `--at TIME` - Schedule daemon to start monitoring at a specific time after restart
• Format: `HH:MM` (today) or `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM` (specific date/time)

What It Does

1. Stops the currently running daemon gracefully 2. Waits 2 seconds for clean shutdown 3. Starts a new daemon instance 4. Loads latest task.md and rules.md files 5. Resumes monitoring with fresh configuration

When to Restart

Restart the daemon when you:

• Modified `task.md` and want to apply changes
• Updated `rules.md` safety constraints
• Changed environment variables
• Troubleshooting daemon issues
• Want to reschedule start time

Examples

**Simple restart:**

/nights-watch restart

**Restart with new schedule:**

/nights-watch restart --at "09:00"

Implementation

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/claude-nights-watch-manager.sh restart "$@"

Restart vs Stop/Start

• **Restart**: Automated stop + start in one command
• **Stop/Start**: Manual control over timing between operations

Both achieve the same result, restart is just more convenient.

See Also

• `/nights-watch stop` - Stop daemon only
• `/nights-watch start` - Start daemon only
• `/nights-watch status` - Verify restart was successful