Winclaude Alive

winclaude-alive

Never lose Claude again. Keeps your Windows terminal and Claude Code alive — because waiting for a dead terminal is like waiting for a text from your ex at 3am.

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Why?

Dead terminals have the same energy as staring at your phone at 3am hoping your ex finally texts back. Nothing good happens, and you just lose time. `winclaude-alive` keeps Claude running so you can stop waiting on ghosts.

Features

• Attaches to an existing Claude Code process if one is already running, or starts a new one if not.
• Monitors for repeated error patterns in the watchdog log and restarts Claude when the threshold is reached.
• Monitors Claude activity files under %USERPROFILE%\.claude and restarts Claude after an inactivity timeout.
• Uses a single-instance lock file so only one watchdog can own the same working directory at a time.
• Trims the watchdog log to the newest 5000 lines to keep the log bounded.
• Supports configurable restart delay, polling interval, error window, and inactivity timeout.
• Resolves portable defaults dynamically from the script location and %USERPROFILE% instead of hardcoded machine paths.
• Supports -ClaudeCommand so the script can launch claude from PATH or a full executable path.
• Supports -WhatIf to print the effective configuration and exit without starting the watchdog loop.

Requirements

• Windows
• PowerShell 5.1 or later
• Claude Code CLI installed

Quick Start

Run the script from the directory you want Claude Code to use, or pass `-WorkDir` explicitly:

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\winclaude_alive.ps1

Parameters

Name	Default	Description
WorkDir	Script directory ($PSScriptRoot), falling back to the current location	Working directory used before attaching or launching Claude Code.
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