| name | janitor-global-disarm |
| description | TRUE machine-wide STOP of the global ai-maestro-janitor daemon AND every per-session heartbeat. Sets the kill-switch so the daemon exits and removes its OS keepalive, AND raises the global-pause flag so every armed session's heartbeat self-disarms (deletes its own cron) on its next fire — halting all janitor activity across ALL projects and instances, not just the daemon. The also-stop-the-daemon sibling of /janitor-global-pause (which keeps the daemon alive). Trigger with /janitor-global-disarm, "stop all janitors", "globally disarm the janitor", "halt the janitor daemon everywhere". |
Janitor global disarm (machine-wide TRUE stop)
Overview
TRUE machine-wide stop of the global janitor daemon by setting the kill-switch.
This is the teardown stop — distinct from /janitor-global-pause (which only
idles the daemon) and from /janitor-disarm (which removes only THIS project's
heartbeat cron). It stops the singleton daemon that serves ALL projects:
- the running daemon sees the kill-switch on its next loop and exits gracefully;
- if the OS keepalive (LaunchAgent / systemd unit) is installed, the daemon
removes it on the way out, so launchd/systemd cannot resurrect it;
- per-session heartbeats stop lazy-spawning a new daemon (
ensure_daemon_running
honors the kill-switch), so the stop holds;
- every armed session's heartbeat SELF-DISARMS —
disarm also raises the
global-pause flag, which dispatch.py honors at Phase 0: on the next fire it emits a
bare [janitor-self-disarm] marker so the session runs /janitor-disarm and deletes
its own cron (TRDD-RQ9FIFX6, superseding the silence-only behavior of TRDD-NJ22HNC3).
This is a TRUE stop, not a silence — a cron FIRE is a full Claude turn that re-reads the
whole session context (~618k cached tokens, billed at the 0.1× cache-read rate, not
free) whether or not detectors run, so only deleting the cron makes a fire cost zero.
Rollout caveat: the marker is baked into the cron prompt at arm time, so crons armed
BEFORE this shipped won't self-disarm on their own — run /janitor-disarm once in each
such session.
To revive: run /janitor-global-arm (clears the kill-switch; re-arm a session with
/janitor-arm and its next heartbeat spawns a fresh daemon). For a temporary stop that
keeps the daemon alive use /janitor-global-pause instead.
When NOT to use
- A temporary stop machine-wide that keeps the daemon alive →
/janitor-global-pause
(the daemon resumes instantly; sessions re-arm to restart their heartbeats).
- Silence only THIS project's heartbeat →
/janitor-disarm (local).
- Uninstall the plugin entirely → Claude Code's plugin uninstall flow.
Instructions
-
Set the kill-switch via the backing CLI (single source of truth for the flag
path — never write the flag file by hand):
uv run --script --quiet "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/global_control_cli.py" disarm "via /janitor-global-disarm"
-
Report the one-line result the CLI prints. The daemon may take up to its loop
interval (≤ 60 s) to notice the flag and exit; that is expected.
Output
One line confirming the janitor is disarmed machine-wide, with the reminder that
/janitor-global-arm revives it. No teardown beyond the kill-switch flag is written
here — the daemon performs its own shutdown + keepalive removal.
Error Handling
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} unset → abort "plugin not installed".- The CLI never blocks; it writes the flag atomically and returns immediately.
- If the daemon was not running, the flag is still set (harmless) so a future
lazy-spawn is suppressed until
/janitor-global-arm clears it.
Examples
User: /janitor-global-disarm
User: stop all janitors everywhere
User: globally disarm the janitor daemon
Scope
ONLY sets the two machine-wide flags via the backing CLI — the kill-switch (daemon
exits) AND the global-pause flag (each armed session's heartbeat self-disarms — deletes
its own cron — on its next fire, TRDD-RQ9FIFX6). The skill does not itself remove a cron,
uninstall the plugin, or delete state; the daemon's own shutdown path removes the OS
keepalive. This skill just trips the switches.
Resources
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/global_control_cli.py — backing CLI (disarm/arm/pause/unpause/status)./janitor-global-arm — clears the kill-switch and revives the daemon./janitor-global-pause — the lighter machine-wide suspend (daemon idles, no teardown)./janitor-disarm — the narrower per-project heartbeat stop.
