Show HN: crai – Get notified when your AI CLI finishes thinking

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3 months ago

I kept losing focus while waiting for Claude Code or Gemini CLI to finish — context-switching to something else, then forgetting to check back. So I built crai.

It wraps any CLI command in a PTY and watches the output stream. When output has been silent for 1500ms after a prompt submission, it fires three notifications in parallel: a system sound (afplay), a Notification Center banner (osascript), and a terminal bell (\a).

A few things I'm happy with:

- 1:1 prompt gating — each Enter arms exactly one notification; startup banners and unsolicited output are ignored - Echo suppression — output within 100ms of a keystroke is treated as PTY echo, not AI output - Quick-response suppression — no notification if the AI responds in under 5s (you're probably still watching)

It's a single Go file (~300 lines), macOS-only for now (relies on afplay and osascript).

      brew install turtlekazu/tap/crai
      crai claude

GitHub: https://github.com/turtlekazu/crai