AgentAlert: visual alarms for AI agents
Make the screen visibly glitch when your AI agents need you, instead of a notification you ignore
- Problem
- Developers running multiple coding or automation agents constantly miss the moment an agent asks for confirmation, errors out, or waits for input, because it lands in a muted notification. One builder missed attention requests so often they made a tool that glitches the whole desktop. Account-limit handoffs mid-session have the same visibility problem.
- Solution
- A tiny desktop daemon polls local agent logs or hooks; when it sees a pending confirmation, failure, or quota warning it fires a full-screen visual effect, menu-bar/taskbar highlight, and custom sound, with one-click jump back to the session. Users can tune intensity per event type.
- Users
- Indie developers and power users running multiple Claude, Codex, or CLI agents in parallel
- MVP
- Watch local session logs or webhooks; classify events (input needed/error/quota); full-screen effect and sound presets; one-click jump back to terminal or editor; quiet-hours settings
- Revenue
- Free base app plus one-time purchase effect packs and multi-device sync; later a team subscription
- Why now
- Parallel agents are now routine but the alerting layer is still OS notifications, a single-machine, no-backend gap