Feature: Notification when background Bash command completes
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jan 27, 2026 by ChaosRealmsAI Closed Jan 30, 2026
Preflight Checklist
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Problem Statement
When using Bash tool with run_in_background: true, there's no notification when the command finishes. Users have to manually check with TaskOutput or read the output file to know if it's done.
This is especially painful for long-running commands like:
pnpm buildpnpm test- Large file operations
Proposed Solution
Add a desktop/terminal notification when a background Bash command completes, similar to how terminal apps like iTerm2 notify when a long command finishes.
Options:
- macOS native notification via
osascript - Terminal bell (
\a) - A visible indicator in the Claude Code TUI
Additional Context
Related to #20525 (background Task completion notification), but this is specifically for the Bash tool's run_in_background parameter.
Current workaround is polling with TaskOutput(task_id, block=false), which is tedious.
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