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Native iOS push notifications for your OpenClaw agents (no PWA)

A developer released reply-push-v2, an OpenClaw plugin that delivers native APNs push notifications to the official OpenClaw iOS app, eliminating the need for a background PWA or polling. The plugin routes notifications through the hosted OpenClaw push relay at ios-push-relay.openclaw.ai so the Gateway stores no APNs keys, auto-detects a paired iPhone node for zero-config single-device setups, and dedupes per category over a 15-second window. The free edition covers only the agentFinished event, while the Pro edition adds agentQuestion, humanMentioned, scheduledTaskFailed and subagentFailed categories plus an agent allowlist and custom mention regex.

by read1 min views1 publishedOct 3, 2026

OpenClaw agents run on a Mac (a Gateway). You talk to them from Telegram, the Control UI, or the official iOS app. The problem: once you close the app, you stop seeing when an agent finishes or asks you something — unless you keep a PWA open in the background.

I built reply-push-v2, an OpenClaw plugin that sends real native APNs push notifications to the official OpenClaw iOS app. No PWA, no background tab, no polling.

agentFinished — an agent finished its turn (agentQuestion — an agent asks you something via ask_user (Pro)humanMentioned — you are mentioned in a conversation (Pro)scheduledTaskFailed — a cron/scheduled task failed (Pro)subagentFailed — a subagent ended with error/timeout/kill (Pro) Your Gateway holds no APNs keys: notifications go through the hosted OpenClaw push relay (ios-push-relay.openclaw.ai). The plugin auto-detects your paired iPhone node (iPhone preferred over Apple Watch), so a single-device setup needs zero config. It respects NIGHT_MODE and dedupes per category (15 s).

~/.openclaw/plugins/reply-push-v2/ ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json, add the plugin to plugins.load.paths and enable its conversation hooks:

   "reply-push-v2": { "enabled": true, "hooks": { "allowConversationAccess": true } }

(hooks.allowConversationAccess: true is required, otherwise OpenClaw blocks the agent_end hook.)

openclaw plugins list. Or install straight from npm:

openclaw plugins install reply-push-v2

On load you will see:

[reply-push-v2] FREE edition: agentFinished only. Pro (all 5 categories): Gumroad - search "reply-push-v2"

Category Free Pro
agentFinished yes yes
agentQuestion — yes
humanMentioned — yes
scheduledTaskFailed — yes
subagentFailed — yes

Pro adds an agent allowlist, custom mention regex and priority support.

Feedback welcome — especially which of the five categories matter most to you.

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