Notification when a CLI agent needs input

Ideas Feature Requests
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I would like to be notified if a Cursor CLI agent is waiting for my input.

Currently the system notifications seem to work only for the IDE, but my workflow centers a lot around the CLI agent. That is because I heavily use a workspace + worktree setup in multiple repos that is not supported by Cursor in VS-Code.

In this setup I explicitly have to look at my agent to see if it needs my input in interactive mode, which takes time with multiple agents. Is there a way to get proactively get notified in this case with CLI agents?

For example

So far I had some hacky ideas to look at the stdout stream and notify if there are no changes happening, or periodically query the git diff, but it is really not optimal.

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Replying with something that solves this today: **Voxlert** ( GitHub - settinghead/voxlert: LLM-generated voice notifications for Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, and OpenClaw, spoken by game characters like the StarCraft Adjutant, Kerrigan, C&C EVA, SHODAN, and more. · GitHub )

It hooks into Cursor’s session lifecycle and gives each session a distinct character voice — SHODAN, StarCraft Adjutant, GLaDOS, HEV Suit. When your agent needs input, stops, or finishes, you hear a contextual phrase spoken in that character’s voice.

The practical part: if you have 3 Cursor sessions running, you hear *which one* needs attention instead of alt-tabbing to check.

Install:

npx @settinghead/voxlert --onboard

Demo: https://youtu.be/5xFXGijwJuk

Works on macOS (Apple Silicon). Local TTS, so audio stays on your machine.