Five Hour Kickoff

5-hour kickoff

Anthropic’s 5-hour session window only starts when the account is used. If you want that window to open at a set local time (for example 4:00 AM so a 9:00 AM “reset” is already running), the extra can ping idle accounts once per local day.

This is a start time, not “subtract 5 hours from 9:00.” If you care about a 9:00 AM window, schedule 4:00 AM.

Turn it on

Settings → Automation → Start available 5-hour windows. The time menu only appears while kickoff is on.

Default time is 7:00 AM local. Choices are on the hour. It will not fire before that clock on the day you enable it.

What it does

• At most once per local day
• Claude: sends claude -p ok for each idle OAuth account that already reports a numeric 5-hour window
• Codex: matching ping (codex exec) for Codex slots that report a 5-hour window
• Skips API-key accounts
• Skips weekly-only plans (no 5-hour window to open)
• Skips accounts whose 5-hour window is still open (resets_at in the future)
• Idle accounts with a stale yesterday row (percent over 0, reset already passed) are pinged
• Does not change your default ~/.claude or ~/.codex login
• The live default login is pinged in place; other slots use an isolated profile so the default login does not change
• A failed day stays due and retries after 5 minutes

The ping spends a little 5-hour and 7-day quota. That is inherent: opening the window is usage.

Notifications

You get a notification with how many windows started, and which accounts failed.

Off by default

Kickoff is extra-only (menubar_settings.json). There is no openswap kickoff CLI command.