Never Stop

Your agent finishes a task and just sits there — tokens idle, deep thoughts unthought. This plugin makes opencode never stop: when the session goes quiet, it pokes the agent with a nudge from your config and gets it working again. No compute wasted, no babysitting.

Install

opencode does not install slash commands from plugin packages — and this plugin is switched on by its commands. So install the plugin and the commands, either with the installer script (does both) or via npm plus a manual copy.

From a repo checkout (recommended)

./scripts/install.sh                                            # macOS / Linux
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\install.ps1  # Windows

This copies the plugin to ~/.config/opencode/plugins/, the commands to ~/.config/opencode/commands/, and writes a default config. Re-run it after pulling updates.

Via npm

opencode plugin opencode-never-stop -g
cp ~/.cache/opencode/node_modules/opencode-never-stop/commands/*.md ~/.config/opencode/commands/

opencode plugin only installs the module and registers it in your config, so the second step is required: without the commands the plugin loads but can never be turned on.

Restart opencode afterwards.

Usage

Command	Effect
/opencode-never-stop [message...]	Start poking this session; optional text overrides the configured nudge message
/opencode-stop	Stop poking

Context threshold

Keep an eye on context usage and get the agent to wrap up before the next compaction. Set a threshold and a message; the plugin nudges the agent once the session context crosses the threshold.

Command	Effect
/opencode-never-proceed-after [threshold] [message...]	Nudge this session once its context crosses the threshold
/opencode-never-proceed-after-stop	Disable the context watch for this session

A threshold below 100 is a percentage of the model's context window; 100 or more is an absolute token count, e.g.:

/opencode-never-proceed-after 120000 please stop whatever you're doing at the moment
/opencode-never-proceed-after 60 pause your work, persist your progress, and note where you left off

Configure

Create ~/.config/opencode/opencode-never-stop.json:

{
  "checkIntervalSeconds": 15,
  "message": "Have you done all your assignments? If anything is left, continue — or spend some more time double-checking your work."
}

Two other locations are checked first, in order: the OPENCODE_NEVER_STOP_CONFIG environment variable (a path), then <project>/.opencode/opencode-never-stop.json.

Field	Default	Description
checkIntervalSeconds	15	Idle seconds before the agent gets nudged
message	the quote above	What to tell the idle agent

That's it. The agent stays busy, you stay productive.