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Developers miss when long-running coding-agent tasks finish

Developers running Codex and other CLI coding agents can’t always tell when a task has finished without watching the screen. Alerts may be too easy to miss, and tasks running in a dev container may not have a convenient way to notify the host. The evidence shows users resorting to scripts, terminal bells, or Shortcuts rather than relying on a straightforward completion alert.

For CLI coding-agent users. Mentioned from May 2025 to Oct 2025 on GitHub.

5 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.

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Competition
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What people said

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  1. It’s frustrating that I have to sit and stare at the screen just to know when it’s done. Since I work remotely, I could easily use that waiting time to do something else, as long as Codex informs me when it finishes
    khryniewiecki on GitHub (openai/codex)Sep 2025+199 upvotesAsked for a toolHas a workaround
  2. Upon completing my task, I need a way to notify the user that it’s done. Currently, there seems to be no method to send notifications from the terminal
    doggy8088 on GitHub (microsoft/vscode)May 2025+59 upvotesAsked for a tool
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