Notifications
Solo can get your attention without making you watch every terminal. This section covers macOS permissions, in-app toasts, sidebar indicators, auto-restart notices, bell sounds, and notifications triggered by your own scripts.
macOS notification permissions
Solo can send native macOS notifications when events happen while you're away from the app. macOS requires you to grant notification permission before those alerts will appear.
In-app toast notifications
Solo uses in-app toasts for lightweight confirmations and longer-lived alerts that should stay visible inside the app.
Notification indicators
Solo uses small visual indicators to draw your attention to processes that raised a notification or alert while you were focused elsewhere.
Auto-restart notifications
Auto-restart mostly happens quietly in the background. The important notification path is when Solo pauses auto-restart because a command is crash-looping.
Bell sounds
Solo can play an audible bell when terminal notification events fire — things like the classic BEL character (\a) and supported terminal notification sequences.
Triggering notifications from scripts
Your shell commands and scripts can send notifications to Solo directly from terminal output using supported OSC sequences and bell events. This is useful for getting alerted when…
Are you an agent? Read this doc via API: /api/v1/docs/notifications