# claude-5h-window-spread

A skill that reads your work hours and schedules quiet pings, so usage lands across several 5-hour Claude Pro/Max windows instead of one.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 8
- Author: Digital-Process-Tools
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/Digital-Process-Tools/claude-5h-window-spread
- Updated: 2026-10-02
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/claude-5h-window-spread

## What it does

The plugin looks at your usual day — when you sit down, when you break for lunch, when you stop — and picks times for four silent pings. Each ping opens a fresh 5-hour window, so a long work block no longer drains a single window and dies mid-debug.

Scheduling stays local: launchd on macOS, cron on Linux, Task Scheduler on Windows. No cloud, no API keys. Run `/window-spread setup` to install the pings, `/window-spread status` to see what is already there and when it fires next. Running setup again swaps the old pings for new ones.

On Linux the install rewrites your whole crontab, so it reads the file first and keeps every entry that is not a window-spread one. If that read fails — no permission on the cron spool, an unmounted home directory, no `crontab` binary on `PATH` — nothing gets written at all. The `--force-replace-crontab` flag wipes the crontab with no backup, so reach for it only when you are sure the file is empty.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install claude-5h-window-spread@claude-community
```

## When to use it
- stop burning through the cap before the workday ends
- work out ping times that fit your own schedule
- see which pings are installed and when they fire
- retune the schedule when your hours change
- set up pings locally without cloud or API keys

## Example prompts
- Set up pings around my day: I start at 8:30, lunch from 12:20 to 14:00, done by 18:00.
- Show me which pings are installed and when they fire next.
- Retune the schedule — I now work weekdays only, until 17:00.

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