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When you quit SHIPIT: what stops and what comes back

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Quitting SHIPIT stops everything it started, and your open workspaces come back on the next launch.

  1. 01SHIPIT asks first

    ⌘Q, closing the last window or a relaunch after an update: SHIPIT first asks Quit SHIPIT by Dzhura? and says what will stop: running sessions and agent turns.

    The default button is Cancel, so a stray Enter keeps SHIPIT open. When panes are running, the quit button says how many will stop, for example Quit and stop 3.

  2. 02What stops and what is saved

    Agents lose their terminals and anything they are doing right now. SHIPIT stops every agent, chat, routine and the programs in every pane. Nothing of it stays in the background.

    Before it quits, SHIPIT saves drafts and writes your panes so they reopen where they were. If saving takes long, it asks: Keep Waiting, Quit Without Saving or Cancel Quit.

  3. 03The next launch

    The next launch

    On launch SHIPIT asks Restore sessions?. Restore all, tick the ones you want and click Restore selected, or Skip.

    Restore last workspace in Settings › Panes & sessions takes you back to the last project you had selected.

  4. 04Free the Mac without quitting

    Free the Mac without quitting

    You do not have to quit SHIPIT to take load off the Mac. Sleep idle agents stops an agent that sits idle in a workspace you are not looking at. Its pane and conversation stay.

    To stop every agent at once: ⌥⌘. (Stop all agents).

  5. 05The macOS background notice

    The macOS background notice

    macOS may tell you that something kept running in the background after an app quit. SHIPIT's agents and panes stop on quit, together with every program started in them. Only a program that detached itself from its terminal on purpose can outlive the quit.

    Open at login in Settings › General only starts SHIPIT when you log in to macOS. It keeps nothing running.

    TipIf something from SHIPIT still runs after you quit, tell us with Report a problem…

Tips

Questions

Do agents work while SHIPIT is closed?

No. Agents work only while SHIPIT is open.

I closed the window. Did SHIPIT quit?

Yes, closing the last window quits SHIPIT. It asks first, the same as ⌘Q.

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