Updated: How to get notified when Claude Code needs your input

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It's quite frustrating to come back to a coding agent after a while only to see that it needed user input only 10 seconds into the task. 
-You can set up [notification hooks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks#notification) to trigger a Desktop notification (or similar) whenever the Claude Code agent halts. 
+You can set up [notification hooks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks#notification) to trigger a Desktop notification (or similar) whenever the Claude Code agent halts. Clicking the notification will open your configured IDE in the correct project directory.
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This is my configuration:
```sh
# ~/.claude/notify.sh
# Note: You need to `chmod +x` this
#!/bin/bash
+
+# Test usage:
+#  echo '{ "title": "foo", "message": "bar" }' | bash ~/.claude/notify.sh
+
+EDITOR_COMMAND="/snap/bin/rubymine"
+
INPUT=$(cat)
+INPUT=${INPUT:-"{}"}
TITLE=$(echo "$INPUT" | jq -r '.title // "Claude Code"')
-MSG=$(echo "$INPUT" | jq -r '.message // "Needs your input"')
+MESSAGE=$(echo "$INPUT" | jq -r '.message // "Needs your input"')
+ICON=$(echo "$INPUT" | jq -r '.icon // "dialog-question"')
+
-notify-send "$TITLE" "$MSG" --icon=dialog-question
+# We use Python here because GNOME Shell's notification daemon does not emit
+# D-Bus ActionInvoked signals for the "default" click action. Only libnotify
+# with a GLib main loop can reliably handle click-to-open-editor on GNOME.
+python3 - "$TITLE" "$MESSAGE" "$PWD" "$ICON" "$EDITOR_COMMAND" << 'PYTHON' > /dev/null 2>&1 & disown
+import sys
+import subprocess
+import gi
+
+gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7')
+from gi.repository import Notify, GLib
+
+title = sys.argv[1]
+message = sys.argv[2]
+working_directory = sys.argv[3]
+icon = sys.argv[4]
+editor_command = sys.argv[5]
+
+def on_notification_click(notification, action, user_data):
+    subprocess.Popen([editor_command, working_directory], start_new_session=True)
+    loop.quit()
+
+def on_close(notification):
+    loop.quit()
+
+Notify.init("Claude Code")
+notification = Notify.Notification.new(title, message, icon)
+notification.add_action("default", "Open Editor", on_notification_click, None)
+notification.connect("closed", on_close)
+notification.show()
+
+# Keep the script alive waiting for the user's click or dismissal
+loop = GLib.MainLoop()
+loop.run()
+PYTHON
```
```sh
# ~/.claude/settings.json
{
  "hooks": {
    "Notification": [
      {
        "matcher": "permission_prompt|elicitation_dialog",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
	    "command": "bash ~/.claude/notify.sh"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "Stop": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
-            "command": "notify-send 'Claude Code' 'Finished its current task' --icon=dialog-information"
+            "command": "echo '{\"title\": \"Claude Code\", \"message\": \"Finished its current task\", \"icon\": \"dialog-information\"}' | bash ~/.claude/notify.sh"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
}
```