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Agent hook

tmux pane flash on attention

When an AI in a background terminal pane needs you, its border flashes pink then stays orange.

built Apr 2026 Upgrading the AI's workbench

how it works

Notification hook toggles tmux pane-border-style in a background subshell; skips the focused pane.

Agent hook: A script that runs automatically at a moment in an AI session (before a command, when it stops) to steer or guard it.

hooksnotificationstmux

related

  • pane-status Command-line tool Each terminal pane shows a colored dot telling me whether its AI agent is working, waiting for me, done or errored.
  • tmux window auto-titling Agent hook Names each terminal tab after what the AI is working on.
  • Interactive prompts go in a tmux split, not the chat Technique When a command needs your password, the AI opens a side pane for you to type it.
  • Agent-composed TV canvas (tmux-style client/server generative UI) App A TV screen that starts blank: you ask for something and an AI assistant finds it in your own media and draws it on screen.
  • tmux-to-cast Command-line tool Turns a terminal's scrollback into a replayable recording.
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