Stop babysitting your AI agents in the terminal — NockIt sends push alerts straight to your phone (Nockit)

A developer has built NockIt, a free, open-source notification utility that sends push alerts from AI agents and long-running background jobs directly to a phone or desktop via ntfy. The tool, which can be set up with a single npx command, aims to eliminate the need to constantly monitor terminal output. The developer invites community feedback and suggestions for improving the monitoring workflow.

If you're running autonomous AI agents, fine-tuning scripts, or long background jobs, you know the drill: you hit enter , switch to another tab to work on something else, and then spend the next hour periodically flipping back to the terminal just to check if: Watching lines of terminal output scroll by isn't a good use of anyone's time. To solve this for my own workflow, I built NockIt —a free, open-source, plug-and-play notification utility that hooks into your local or remote AI agents and pushes real-time alerts directly to your phone or desktop via ntfy . Learn More: https://nockit.uk https://www.google.com/search?q=https://nockit.uk NockIt provides a simple, zero-bloat bridge between your autonomous dev pipelines and your devices. ntfy :Instead of keeping your terminal pinned to your screen while your agent runs through an multi-step workflow, you can trigger a push alert when key state changes happen: python import requests def notify dev title, message, priority="default" : requests.post "https://ntfy.sh/your custom nockit topic", data=message.encode 'utf-8' , headers={ "Title": title, "Priority": priority, "Tags": "robot,warning" } Inside your agent's execution loop: try: agent.run task notify dev "Agent Finished ", "Task completed successfully without errors." except Exception as e: notify dev "Agent Crashed 🚨", f"Error encountered: {str e }", priority="high" Ofc, no one wants to write such long code Just set it up via a single command requires Node Js installed : npx -y nockit-mcp@latest setup I'd love for the community to test it out and share feedback Drop a comment below and share your experience—what's your current setup for monitoring long-running background tasks or AI scripts, and what features would make your workflow easier?