reset

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name: reset description: Drop the runtime markers and deadline without deleting the owner's work or evidence. license: MIT

Reset runtime mechanics for the host-opened project. This recovers from damaged or confusing runtime state. It does not delete the punch list, rules, history, or .nightshift/ itself.

Resolve the installed plugin root to an absolute $NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT — ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} on Claude Code, $PLUGIN_ROOT on Codex when set, otherwise the absolute path this skill was attached from (skills/reset/SKILL.md). Run every command below through "$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT/runtime/ns" — native Windows: & "$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT\runtime\windows\ns.ps1" in the PowerShell tool, same verbs — which resolves the host and the workspace; ns help lists the verbs, and ns bind prints the six resolved facts (TASK_ROOT, NIGHTSHIFT_WORKSPACE, NS, NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT, HOST, SOURCE); $NS below is that NS. Never a bare relative path: the working directory persists between calls. Each $NS/... path below is where the current layout keeps that file; ns path <key> prints where this workspace keeps it, and ns path --list names every key.

Run the trusted helper. Do not delete runtime files by hand:

"$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT/runtime/ns" reset-shift

The helper first performs Stop (pause and disarm), then removes the current deadline, leftover STOP, and temporary session, recovery, watchman, lease, and mutex markers. It preserves the punch list and unfinished items, rules, parking lot, work orders, receipts, archives, research, opportunities, snag log, shift log, and workspace configuration such as work-target and work-mode. A second Reset is safe. It never deletes .nightshift/.

Report that the deadline was removed and that durable files remain. The plugin install is untouched. Start after Reset writes a new deadline only when Hunt, a work order, or the owner supplies one — it does not invent a time budget.