Feature request: option to prevent the app window from stealing focus when a session needs attention

Summary

When a running Claude Code session needs the user's attention (a permission prompt appears, or a task finishes and is waiting on input), the desktop app window forcibly comes to the foreground and steals focus from whatever other application the user is actively working in on macOS.

Why this is disruptive

If the user is focused on unrelated work in another app (writing, browser, design tool, etc.) and a background Claude Code session — especially a long-running agentic task doing many tool calls — needs a permission decision, the app yanks the user's attention away immediately and interrupts whatever they were doing, rather than just signaling that attention is needed (sound, badge, banner) and letting the user switch over when ready.

This gets worse the more sessions/scheduled tasks a user runs in parallel, since each one needing attention can trigger an unwanted focus-steal at an arbitrary moment.

What's already configurable (and why it doesn't fully solve this)

• inputNeededNotifEnabled — push notification when Claude is waiting on input
• preferredNotifChannel — choose between terminal bell or desktop notification for task completion

Switching preferredNotifChannel to "terminal-bell" avoids the OS notification banner, but does not appear to stop the app window itself from coming to the front — the foreground-steal seems to be separate, hardcoded behavior tied to "needs attention" state rather than to the notification channel setting.

Requested behavior

Please add a setting (e.g. stealFocusOnAttentionNeeded: false in settings.json, or a toggle in the desktop app's Preferences) that lets the user opt out of the window being forced to the foreground when a session needs attention — while still surfacing some passive signal (dock badge, sound, system notification) so the user can switch over on their own terms instead of being interrupted mid-task in another app.

Environment

• macOS (Darwin), Claude Code desktop app
• Affects any workflow running multiple parallel/background sessions or scheduled tasks that may need permission input at unpredictable times