Finished / needs your input
You don’t have to watch your agents. NeuroSquad lets you know when one of them needs you — and it tells the two cases apart:
Two kinds of signal
The agent has completed its turn and is waiting for your next prompt. The status chip turns green.
The agent has stopped halfway and is asking you something — usually for permission, like “may I run this command?”. The chip turns amber and the card pulses. The notification shows what it’s asking, and it stays on screen until you answer, because a blocked agent won’t unblock itself. Once you answer, it goes away by itself.
Claude Code, OpenCode, Kilo Code and Hermes Agent tell NeuroSquad exactly which of the two it is. For other agents, NeuroSquad notices when the agent has gone quiet and treats it as finished.
How you’re told
- a short sound (Chime, Ping or Marimba),
- the card glows, and a dot appears next to the agent in the sidebar,
- a desktop notification — click it and the canvas flies straight to that card,
- the notifications bell in the top bar keeps a list of what happened,
- optionally, a message to Slack or Discord through a webhook,
- optionally, a message in Telegram — for when you’re away from your desk.
Each of these can be switched on or off in Settings → Notifications.
Catching up quickly
- CtrlShiftJ — fly to the agent that has been waiting the longest.
- CtrlShiftA — the “needs attention” inbox: every waiting agent in one list.
- The Inbox section of the sidebar shows the same list.
Need quiet for a while? A flow timer holds the “finished” pings until your focus block ends.
What you’re notified about
In Settings → Notifications each kind has its own switch: an agent waiting for you (with what it asks), an agent that finished, one that hit its usage limit, and an agent CLI update that NeuroSquad skipped so your agents keep working (you decide when to update).
Send a test notification shows one right away. If your system doesn’t show notifications — for example, Windows has them switched off for all apps (Settings → System → Notifications) — NeuroSquad says so there and shows them in the bottom-right corner of its own window instead; System notification settings opens the right place to turn them on. Windows’ Focus assist / Do not disturb can also hold them back.
Agent CLI updates don’t interrupt your agents
Several agent CLIs update themselves at startup, and some stop to ask first (“Update now / Skip”) — which would leave a card where neither you nor a lead agent can type. Inside NeuroSquad cards this is switched off (only for NeuroSquad’s own cards — the CLI in your own terminal keeps its settings), and a prompt that appears anyway is answered Skip. When a newer version is out, NeuroSquad tells you once per version, with the command to update from a terminal — you decide when.