Openpaw c-notify

Name: c-notify
Author: daxaur

Send native macOS notification center alerts from the command line using terminal-notifier.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/c-notify" ~/.claude/skills/daxaur-openpaw-c-notify && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/c-notify/SKILL.md

Notifications (terminal-notifier)

# Simple notification
terminal-notifier -title "OpenPaw" -message "Task complete!"

# With subtitle and sound
terminal-notifier -title "Build" -subtitle "Project X" -message "Done!" -sound default

# Open URL when clicked
terminal-notifier -title "PR Merged" -message "Click to view" -open "https://github.com/..."

# Activate app when clicked
terminal-notifier -title "Music" -message "Now playing" -activate "com.spotify.client"

# Group notifications (replaces previous in same group)
terminal-notifier -title "Progress" -message "50%" -group "build"
terminal-notifier -title "Progress" -message "100%" -group "build"

# Remove a notification group
terminal-notifier -remove "build"

# Custom app icon
terminal-notifier -title "Alert" -message "Hello" -appIcon /path/to/icon.png

Guidelines

Use notifications to alert the user when long tasks complete
Group related notifications so they don't spam
Add
```
-sound default
```
for important alerts
Use
```
-open URL
```
to make notifications actionable
Keep messages short — notifications truncate long text