Sub-Agents Constantly Trigger OS Notifications

[JuliaBonita]

Description

PROBLEM: Recently, with Claude (maybe others, too) the sub-agents started becoming more active and constantly triggering the OS notifications as the sub-agents complete their sub-tasks. So now every session is filled with constant OS notifications. This creates so many false positives that the OS notifications are essentially meaningless now for their intended purpose.

SOLUTION: The OS notifications should only be triggered when the primary LLM is actually finished with the task and/or waiting for a response from the user.

OpenCode version

LATEST

Operating System

MacOS

Terminal

WizTerm

[rekram1-node]

What "notifications" are u using plugins? Or the desktop app? What are u referring to.

[JuliaBonita]

Yes, it's a plugin with this code:

export const NotificationSoundPlugin = async ({ project, client, $, directory, worktree }) => {
  return {
    event: async ({ event }) => {
      if (event.type === "session.idle") {
        const result = await $`osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of first application process whose frontmost is true'`.text();
        const focusedApp = result.trim().toLowerCase();

        const terminalApps = ['opencode', 'terminal', 'iterm', 'iterm2', 'warp', 'alacritty', 'kitty'];
        const isTerminalFocused = terminalApps.some(app => focusedApp.includes(app));

        if (!isTerminalFocused) {
          const timestamp = new Date().toLocaleTimeString();
          const message = `${timestamp}`;
          await $`/usr/local/bin/alerter -title OpenCode -subtitle "Agent Ready" -message ${message} -sound Blow -group opencode-idle -timeout 0`.quiet();
        }
      }
    }
  };
};

How do I update the plugin to only trigger the notification when the main LLM agent actually needs attention?

[Tenrys]

Wondering about this too, this simple plugin is also hit by the issue: https://gist.github.com/ahosker/267f375a65378bcb9a867fd9a195db1e#file-opencode-terminal-bell-plugin-md

Fixing this + having a way to know when an agent needs permissions / asks a question would be golden.

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