Sound / notification when AI panel (Codex / Chat) finishes responding

Ideas Feature Requests
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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

When working with Codex or long AI reviews inside a Cursor side panel, there is currently no completion signal when the AI finishes responding.

Cursor already supports sound/notification cues for:

terminal commands

long-running tasks

But AI panel completions (Codex review, long analysis, multi-step reasoning) have no equivalent signal. From the IDE’s perspective, text simply stops streaming.

This makes it hard to:

background AI work

switch context safely

avoid constant visual polling

Requested behavior

Add an optional sound and/or notification when an AI panel response completes, similar to terminal task completion.

Examples:

“Play sound when AI response finishes”

“Notify when Codex review completes”

“AI task completed” notification

Why this matters

Many users now treat AI inside Cursor as a background worker, not just chat.
Completion signaling is essential for:

deep work

long reviews

multi-pass spec and code validation

reduced cognitive load

Cursor already has the OS hooks — this just needs AI completion to be treated as a first-class task event.

Operating System (if it applies)

MacOS

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This will ring familiar to anyone who also runs Claude Code. It has the same gap, and for the same reason (the “done” signal is either non-existent or unreliable depending on which surface you’re on). Since Anthropic hasn’t shipped it natively, I published a VS Code extension: AI Agent Sound Notification.

Plays a short sound when Claude Code finishes a turn, a different sound when it needs permission, 10s default silent window so it doesn’t fire if you’re already paying attention.

Free and open source, cross-platform. Marketplace: AI Agent Sound Notification - Visual Studio Marketplace. Repo: GitHub - mayerwin/AI-Agent-Sound-Notification: VS Code extension that plays a distinct sound when Claude Code requires your authorization — configurable delays, back-off repeats, and Windows Focus Assist awareness. · GitHub. Not Cursor-specific, but if you split your time between the two this might cover the Claude Code side.