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restart_box
What it does
Restart one of your boxes: the machine is rebooted through the provider, so it works when the box is too wedged to answer. Down for a minute or two; environments, the workbench and Remote Control come back on their own, and every Claude session on the box ends -- this one too, if it runs there -- until it is typed into. For a lighter fix try restart_claude or restart_workbench first. Confirm with the user first, then call with confirm: true.
What it needs to know
- box · optional
- Which box: its name and account, "home.frank" or "jordan.northwind", or just "home" when only one of your boxes is called that. Omit it for your current box (switch_box changes it; list_boxes says which it is).
- confirm · optional
- Actually restart. Without this, only say what it would do.
- session_box · optional
- The box this session runs on, if it runs on one of yours: its name, as the on-box instructions give it ("frankh90.hemlane"). With it, a call that names no box is checked against your current box.
Where it lands
On one of your boxes: the one named in box, or your default box when none is named.