I Made Claude Code Ding When It's Done (And It Changed My Workflow)

Short summary

A developer shared how adding a Stop hook to Claude Code's settings.json plays a notification sound when Claude finishes a task, eliminating constant monitoring overhead. Using a simple shell command, this tweak reduced task turnaround by cutting context-switching delays. The author provides cross-platform options (macOS, Linux, Windows) and conditional success/failure sounds.

• •Stop hook in Claude Code settings.json plays audio notification when Claude finishes a task
• •Eliminates context-switching delays and reduces task turnaround time by ~50%
• •Cross-platform compatible with examples for macOS (afplay), Linux (paplay), and Windows (PowerShell)

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