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---
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title: "Status and notifications"
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description: "Installing the hooks, reading the dots, and being told when an agent needs you."
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---
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An agent working for two minutes and an agent that stopped ninety seconds ago
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waiting for permission look identical from outside. tty7 fixes that by letting
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the agent say which one it is.
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## Installing the hooks
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**Settings → Agents** lists every agent that can report status, with an
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**Install** button beside each:
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| Agent | |
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| Claude Code · Codex · TraeCode · Copilot CLI · OpenCode · Pi · Grok Build · Oh My Pi · Gemini · Droid · Qwen Code · Goose · Kimi Code · Qoder CLI · Crush | Hooks available |
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| Aider · Amp · Cursor · Auggie · Hermes · Vibe · Antigravity | Detected and labelled, but no status channel yet |
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Installing writes into that agent's own configuration directory. Once installed
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the row grows a second **Uninstall** button beside the first, which itself
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becomes **Reinstall** — or **Update**, against an **Outdated** state, when tty7
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ships a newer hook.
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<Note>
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Crush ships only a `PreToolUse` hook today, so it reports **working** — a
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tool call is the only turn signal there is — but never **done**. On a Crush
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pane, `tty7 wait` times out rather than returning.
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</Note>
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<Note>
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The hooks only do anything inside tty7. Running the same agent in another
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terminal is unaffected.
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</Note>
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Hooks are installed per machine. Once a second
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[machine](/remote/workspaces) is linked, a row of chips appears above the table
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to pick which one you are looking at, and the table then shows that machine's
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agents — so a dev box gets its hooks installed the same way, from the same
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screen.
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## The status dot
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Every tab chip and sidebar row carries a dot:
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| Dot | Meaning |
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| 🔵 **Blue** | Working |
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| 🟠 **Amber** | Needs your input — a permission prompt, a question |
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| 🟢 **Green** | Done with this turn |
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<Frame caption="Placeholder — screenshot: three sidebar rows, one working, one waiting, one done">
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<img src="/images/placeholder.svg" alt="Agent status dots" />
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</Frame>
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The same three states are what `tty7 agents` reports as `working` / `waiting` /
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`done`, and what [`tty7 wait`](/agents/orchestration) blocks on. A fourth state,
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`idle`, carries no dot — it is an agent that has not started a turn.
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## Notifications
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Two, both following your **Settings → Window & Tabs → Notifications** policy:
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- **"needs your permission…"** the moment an agent blocks on you
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- **"finished after 42s"** at the end of a turn
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Which means that by default — *When unfocused* — you are told the instant you
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are the bottleneck, and left alone while you are watching.
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## The tray icon
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tty7 keeps a status item in the system tray (menu bar on macOS). It flips to an
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attention state the moment *any* agent anywhere needs input, so you can see it
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without the window in front of you.
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Its menu lists every agent pane with its brand avatar and status dot — click one
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to reveal it — and also holds the notification policy switch and **Quit and Stop
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Server…**.
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Turn it off with **Settings → Window & Tabs → Show tray icon**
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(`show_tray_icon: false`).
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## Sending an agent some context
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Two command-palette entries hand what is in front of you to the agent running in
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the pane, as a ready-made prompt:
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| Command | Sends |
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| **Agent: Send Selection** | The current terminal selection |
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| **Agent: Send Git Diff for Review** | The repository's `git diff` |
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If nothing recognisable is running, tty7 says *"No running coding agent found"*
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rather than typing into your shell.
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