Voice Notifications for Claude Code

I give Claude Code longer and longer tasks. Agents got smarter, so I can set a task, switch to something else, and come back later.

I set up a simple alarm with Claude Code hooks, shell commands that fire on lifecycle events, all calling the macOS say command:

Here’s my ~/.claude/settings.json:

I use two notification matchers: permission_prompt and elicitation_dialog. I used to have an idle_prompt matcher, but I removed it quite fast. When you run multiple agents, after a while they all start complaining they’re bored.