answer your agents from the notch

your agent is waiting. you don’t have to be. claude code and codex prompts land in the notch — answer them without leaving the window you’re in.

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Spotify
  • Apple Music
  • YouTube Music
  • free
  • MIT
  • macOS 14+
notch-911 running on a MacBook Pro: a prompt hanging from the notch with the status window behind it

everything they can ask you

a hook fires, the notch opens, you answer, the agent unblocks.

  • allow / deny

    Claude CodeCodex

    permission requests, settled with one keystroke either way.

  • selects + other

    Claude Code

    multiple choice, with an escape hatch for an answer of your own.

  • selects + text fields

    Claude Code

    full forms — single-select, multi-select and free text, mixed.

  • free text

    Claude CodeCodex

    the agent stops, you type, it carries on with your answer.

An Elicitation form in the notch: a single-select Deploy target group and a multi-select Pre-deploy checks group, each option bound to a Command-number shortcut
a form hanging from the notch — every option on its own ⌘-number.
  • keyboard-first
  • no focus stealing
  • floats above fullscreen

while nothing is asking

the surface doesn’t go dark between prompts. it keeps three quiet things.

The expanded notch with Spotify playing on the left and the file shelf on the right
nothing waiting on you: now playing on the left, the shelf on the right, both agents connected.
  • now playing

    artwork and transport controls for spotify, apple music and youtube music.

  • file shelf

    drag files in from anywhere, drag them back out later. nine slots, copies not references.

  • clipboard history

    the last 30 things you copied, one ⇧⌘V away. anything marked confidential is never captured.

install — and two honest caveats

download the DMG, drag notch-911 into applications. there’s no paid apple developer account behind this app — two things worth knowing up front.

macOS will refuse to open it at first.

gatekeeper blocks unsigned apps with a claim that the app “is damaged”. it isn’t — it just carries the quarantine flag every downloaded file gets. remove it once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/notch-911.app

accessibility needs re-granting after each update.

macOS ties the accessibility permission (used for direct codex answers) to the code signature, and an unsigned app has no stable identity across versions. the fix: system settings → privacy & security → accessibility, remove notch-911 with −, add it back with +.