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8/5/2026

The original title is "NockIt: open-source push notifications for monitoring autonomous AI agents"
Original: Stop babysitting your AI agents in the terminal — NockIt sends push alerts straight to your phone (Nockit)
Short summary
NockIt is a free, open-source notification utility that sends push alerts to your phone or desktop when autonomous AI agents or long-running scripts finish, crash, or need input. It uses ntfy for lightweight pub/sub messaging and integrates with a single npx command. The author built it to stop manually monitoring terminal output during multi-step agent workflows.
- •Open-source tool that pushes real-time alerts from AI agents to phone/desktop via ntfy
- •Supports task completion, failure, token budget, and human-in-the-loop event notifications
- •Setup via single npx command; includes Python and MCP integration examples
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