Opencode: Never Stop Never Stopping

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.