claude-watchdog 0.1.5

Claude Code tmux watchdog — auto-unblock permission dialogs

claude-watchdog

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Claude Code tmux watchdog — auto-unblock permission dialogs so you don't have to stare at a blocked session.

Only logs hits (blockage detected and cleared), silent otherwise.

Install

pip install claude-watchdog

Usage

# One-shot check (runs once, exits)
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl

# Monitor continuously
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl --daemon

# Monitor every claude-* session
claude-watchdog --all --daemon

# Alert only — log + notify, don't auto-approve
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl --daemon --alert-only

# View hit log
claude-watchdog --log
claude-watchdog --log --follow       # tail -f mode, watch live
claude-watchdog --log --session claude-tl  # filter by session

# Restart the daemon (kills existing + starts fresh)
claude-watchdog restart
claude-watchdog restart --interval 10   # custom interval on restart

Notify on hit

When a blockage is detected and cleared, claude-watchdog can notify you. Pass --notify (or -n) to enable. Examples:

# Integrated: via hermes-notify (bus message, silent progress type)
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl --daemon --notify

# DIY: pipe stdout to anything you want

# HTTP webhook (Slack/Telegram/Discord/any API)
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl --daemon | while read line; do
  curl -s -X POST https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxx/yyy/zzz \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"text\": \"$line\"}"

  curl -s -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/sendMessage" \
    -d "chat_id=<CHAT_ID>&text=$line"
done

# MCP notification (Model Context Protocol — tools with notifications)
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl --daemon | while read line; do
  curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8080/mcp/notify \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"notifications/message\", \
         \"params\": {\"severity\": \"warning\", \"message\": \"$line\"}}"
done

# macOS notification
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl --daemon | while read line; do
  osascript -e "display notification \"$line\" with title \"Watchdog\""
done

# WeChat (via notify-hermes.py)
claude-watchdog --session claude-tl --daemon | while read line; do
  ~/.hermes/scripts/notify-hermes.py --type progress "Watchdog: $line"
done

The --notify flag auto-detects hermes-notify if installed. No hard dependency — without it, --notify is a no-op.

Rules

Pattern	Keys	Description
Do you want to proceed	1 + Enter	Tool confirmation dialog
Do you want to (make this edit|overwrite)	Down + Enter	Allow all edits this session
accept edits on	Enter	Accept pending diffs
Detected a custom API key	Up + Enter	Confirm custom API key
Interrupted	2 + Enter	Bypass/continue after interruption
Rate this response / 评价 / 评分	Escape	Dismiss evaluation dialog

New patterns can go into ~/.config/claude-watchdog/rules.toml (future).

Log

Hits are logged to ~/.local/share/claude-watchdog/hits.log as JSONL:

{"ts": "2026-05-18 09:15:23", "session": "claude-tl", "rule": "bypass_permissions", "detail": "Permission bypass prompt — confirm bypass"}

Architecture

cli.py ── session/daemon/log ──→ watcher.py ── tmux capture-pane
                                        │
                                        ↓ rules.py
                                   pattern match?
                                   ├─ yes → send-keys + log [+ notify]
                                   └─ no  → silent