attention-sounds

attention-sounds

▶ Watch the 36-second showcase with sound (the preview above is silent)

A Claude Code mod that plays a sound when Claude needs you, so you can do other things while it works.

Each event can use its own sound, follow the default sound, or be muted. Picks are kept across sessions.

Install

At the prompt of a terminal claude session:

Answer y to add the marketplace, then pick a scope. Installed at the user scope, it also loads in the desktop app's Code tab.

Use

In the desktop app, /sound opens a panel: pick an event, pick a library, click a sound to hear it and use it.

In the terminal the panel takes the keyboard:

Update

Then /reload-plugins in a running session, or start a new one.

Sounds

Ships with 18 interface sounds from Kenney (CC0), trimmed and re-encoded.

Add your own

1. Run /sound info. It prints the mod's sounds folder (Sounds folder: ...).
2. Make a folder inside it, for example Mine/. Each folder shows up as a library in the panel.
3. Drop audio files in: .m4a, .mp3, .wav, .aiff or .caf. The file name without its extension is the sound's name (Vine Boom.mp3 becomes Vine Boom).
4. Run /sound again. No restart needed.

Good sources: /System/Library/Sounds on macOS, Kenney and freesound for free packs, any soundboard site for memes.

Short clips that start at once work best. To cut silence from both ends and even out the volume with ffmpeg:

A plugin update replaces the installed folder, so keep a copy of your own sounds somewhere else.

Notes

- Tested on macOS only.
- Subagent turns and aborted turns stay silent.

Develop

Licence

Code: MIT. Bundled sounds: CC0, by Kenney.