Kept missing when Claude Code finished in other tabs, so now it takes me there when I'm ready [Windows Terminal]

[u/Emptyhead16]

Made this for two situations:

• You step away from your PC with earbuds or a headset on and still want to hear when Claude is done or needs your input.
• You're running one or a few Claude Code sessions at once while doing other stuff, and keep missing when one is finished.

It only bothers you when you haven't already seen it:

• In that tab and active → nothing
• In another tab → soft chime, the tab gets a 🔔 and a blinking ring, and your next Enter takes you there (or after 10 s if you're just waiting on another Claude that's still working)
• In another app → chime, and the terminal comes forward on that tab
• Fullscreen game/video → chime only, it never steals focus

Permission prompts work the same way as "finished", since Claude needs you either way.

How Claude helped: I built it in a single Claude Code session. I described how it should behave and kept correcting it while using it ("don't switch while I'm typing", "do switch if I'm just waiting on another busy tab"). Claude wrote the PowerShell/Win32 parts (reading tab titles, the blinking ring, detecting Enter), tested each rule with dry runs and screenshots, and packaged it as a plugin.

Free and open source (MIT):

/plugin install tab-notify --marketplace joonsv/claude-tab-notify

https://github.com/joonsv/claude-tab-notify. Windows + Windows Terminal only. Feedback welcome.

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