Claude Auto Pinger

Keep your Claude AI session alive automatically. Auto-pings Claude every 5 hours, monitors session & weekly usage limits.

Claude Auto Pinger — Never Lose Your Claude AI Session Again! Tired of losing your Claude AI session because it timed out? Claude Auto Pinger automatically keeps your session alive by sending a small keep-alive ping every 5 hours, so you always have access when you need it. Requires Claude Pro or Max. Free accounts are detected automatically. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ AUTOMATIC SESSION KEEP-ALIVE • Sends a lightweight "Hello" to Claude every 5 hours automatically (incognito chat with Haiku 4.5 — the smallest, cheapest model) • Runs silently in the background - no interruptions • Survives browser restarts (Chrome alarms persist across sessions) • Restores your previously selected model after each ping - your Opus / Sonnet default is never changed silently 🧠 SMART SKIP (on by default — you can opt out) • Before each scheduled ping, the extension checks if you already have an active Claude session • If you do, it skips the ping — no point starting a redundant window while you're coding • Manual "Run now" always bypasses this so you're never blocked • Saves quota for users who code throughout the day 🕒 CUSTOM PING SCHEDULE • Click hours on a clean 24-hour grid (00–23) to ping at exact local-time slots instead of every 5 hours • One-click presets: Every 6 h, Every 8 h, Overnight (3 AM) • Perfect for night-owl coders who want a fresh window ready at 3 AM, or anyone with a regular daily schedule • Live summary shows the resulting times (e.g. "Pings at 03:00 · 09:00 · 15:00 · 21:00") 📊 REAL-TIME USAGE DASHBOARD • Live countdown timer to next scheduled ping (updates every second) • Current session usage % with color-coded progress bar (yellow at 60 %, red at 80 %) • Weekly usage limit % with reset date • Session reset timer so you know exactly when limits refresh • Optimistic update — the session bar jumps to 100 % remaining the moment a ping succeeds (no more "stuck at 2 % remaining") • Configurable auto-refresh (15 min / 30 min / 1 h / 2 h — default 30 min) 🛡️ SAFE-START DIAGNOSTIC • Doesn't silently start on install — waits for your first "Run now" click • Verifies you're signed in to claude.ai before doing anything • Detects Free-plan accounts (claude.ai redirects them to /upgrade) and tells you clearly • If your session is already active, the very first ping is intelligently skipped • Clear error banners for every failure mode ("You're signed out", "Free plan detected", "Couldn't read your usage page") 🎮 FULL MANUAL CONTROL • Run Now — trigger an immediate ping anytime (button is properly disabled while a ping is in flight, so you can't accidentally double-ping) • Pause / Resume — temporarily disable auto-pinging • Refresh — manually re-sync with Claude's usage data ☀️ DARK + LIGHT THEMES • Default dark mode uses bright white text on a dark background for easy reading on glossy screens • One-click toggle (☀️ / 🌙 in the popup header) for a true white-background light mode • Your choice is remembered between sessions 📋 ACTIVITY HISTORY • View the last 10 ping/refresh/skip events with status icons • See success, error, and info events at a glance • "Sent 'Hello' to Haiku 4.5", "Skipped: session already active (21 % used)", "Paused — click Run now after fixing", etc. 👋 WELCOME PAGE ON FIRST INSTALL • A friendly onboarding tab opens once when you install the extension • 3-step setup guide, feature overview, settings explained with a live hour-grid mockup, FAQ • No external website needed — everything is bundled in the extension 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST • Zero data collection — nothing is sent to external servers • No analytics, no tracking, no cookies • Everything stored locally in your browser via chrome.storage.local • Only talks to claude.ai (the extension's host permission) • Open and transparent — review the source code yourself ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤔 HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Install the extension 2. Make sure you're signed in at claude.ai with a Pro or Max plan 3. Click the extension icon and click "Run now" once 4. The extension verifies your sign-in, reads your session reset time, and either pings to start a fresh window or — if you're already in a session — queues the next ping for after it resets 5. Each ping opens a hidden tab, switches to Haiku 4.5, sends a quick "Hello", restores your previously selected model, and closes the tab 6. Your session stays alive — no more timeouts! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 SUPPORT & FEEDBACK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Love the extension? Leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review! Questions or issues? Email: suleyman.helps@gmail.com Want to support development? Use the 💝 Support button in the popup, or visit https://buymeacoffee.com/science64 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆕 WHAT'S NEW IN v1.0.7 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Safe-start diagnostic — extension no longer auto-bootstraps on install. First "Run now" click verifies sign-in + Pro plan and warns clearly if anything is wrong. • Free-plan detection — automatically catches the claude.ai → /upgrade redirect and surfaces a clean error. • Smart skip (on by default) — don't ping when a session is already active. • Custom ping schedule with 24-hour click grid + presets. • Adjustable auto-refresh interval (15 min / 30 min / 1 h / 2 h). • Restores your previously selected model after each ping — works for Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, and any future model name. • Bright dark mode + a true light mode you can toggle from the popup header. • Session bar updates instantly after a successful ping (no more "stuck at 2 % remaining"). • "Run now" button stays disabled for the full duration of a ping. • Welcome page bundled in the extension — opens once on install with a guided tour. • Wider popup (380 px) so the bottom buttons line up cleanly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💻 BROWSER SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Google Chrome 88+ ✅ Microsoft Edge (Chromium) ✅ Brave Browser ✅ Arc ✅ Other Chromium-based browsers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ IMPORTANT — DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is an unofficial, community-built browser extension. It is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. "Claude" is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC. Use at your own risk. The author accepts no liability for account issues, usage charges, plan-limit consequences, lost work, or any other outcome of using this extension. There is no warranty, express or implied. Nothing in this extension or its documentation constitutes a legally binding agreement. The extension requires a Claude Pro or Max plan to function. Free-plan accounts are detected automatically and shown a clear message.