opencode-interactive-notifier

KDE Plasma interactive notifications for opencode (OpenCode V2, CLI plugin). Permission requests, questions, and session events (started / completed / error) show up as native Plasma banners; answers are sent back to opencode, and the jump action focuses the terminal and switches to the tab that finished.

How it works

OpenCode V2 separates the terminal UI (TUI/client) from the background service. The notifier runs as a CLI plugin (./tui entrypoint) inside the TUI process, because only the client knows terminal-window focus, the open session tabs, and can show kdialog/notify-send. The server-side entrypoint is a stub required for the TUI part to load. (Level of this doc: use the V2 plugin context via data.listen for server events; see below.)

Features

• Permissions: banner with Allow once / Always allow / Reject buttons → direct reply
• Questions: notification; clicking the notification body opens a kdialog dialog (menu / checklist / inputbox with custom answer) → form reply
• Session events: Started · <project> / Completed · <project> / Error · <project> banners. "Completed" only fires on a genuine completion (session.execution.succeeded); idle pauses (waiting for your next prompt) do not count as completion. Each TUI instance only notifies for sessions that live in its own project — the shared service streams every project's events to every TUI, so other projects' events are skipped here and their owning TUI shows them with the correct label. Background work in other opencode windows therefore still notifies when it really finishes.
• Jump to result: clicking the Completed notification body switches the TUI to the tab whose task finished and raises the terminal window
• Focus-aware: notifications are suppressed while the TUI's terminal window is focused — unless the event comes from a different tab (background work still notifies). The same rule dismisses a pending banner the moment you return focus to the tab it belongs to: no click, no timeout wait — it is gone the moment you are looking at the result. Focusing a different tab keeps the banner clickable.
• Timeout: banners expire automatically, no answer/jump performed

Notification interaction

The default interaction is body-click: clicking a notification's body acts as the action (freedesktop "default" action, supported by Plasma). To use visible action buttons instead, set notificationInteraction to "buttons":

{
  "notificationInteraction": "buttons"
}

Permission prompts always use buttons (they are real choices).

Requirements

• OpenCode V2 (the interactive TUI client; the plugin does not run for opencode run / non-interactive mode)
• KDE Plasma (Wayland recommended)
• kdialog, notify-send
• One of the following for focus detection / jump-to-terminal:
  • kdotool (KDE/Wayland, recommended)
  • xdotool (X11 fallback)

If neither kdotool nor xdotool is installed, the plugin still works: banners and dialogs are shown for every event (focus-aware suppression and the tab jump are disabled).

Install

opencode plugin add opencode-interactive-notifier

Or add to opencode.jsonc:

{
  "plugin": ["opencode-interactive-notifier"]
}

The ./tui entrypoint is discovered automatically by the client for any active plugin.

Configuration (optional)

The plugin works with sensible defaults out of the box. To customize, create ~/.config/opencode/opencode-interactive-notifier.json:

{
  "enabled": true,
  "suppressWhenFocused": true,
  "timeout": 30,
  "notificationInteraction": "body"
}

Option	Default	Description
enabled	true	Set to false to disable the plugin entirely
suppressWhenFocused	true	Suppress notifications while the TUI terminal is focused (except other-tab events; set false to always notify)
timeout	30	Banner lifetime in seconds; no answer/jump after it expires
notificationInteraction	"body"	"body" = notification body click activates the action; "buttons" = visible action buttons

Debugging

Set OC_NOTIFIER_DEBUG=1 and one JSON line per handled event (and per notify / suppress / skip decision) is appended to ~/.local/share/opencode/opencode-interactive-notifier-debug.log. Useful to see exactly which events a TUI receives — the shared service streams every project's sessions — and why a banner did or did not fire.

Suppression rule

A notification fires when:

1. the TUI terminal window does not have focus or
2. the terminal has focus but the event belongs to a different tab than the one being viewed.

Started notifications only fire while the terminal is unfocused (a new tab you just opened is right in front of you).

A pending banner is dismissed when the terminal window gains focus and the active tab is the banner's own tab — the exact condition that would have suppressed it at emit time. This applies to every banner, including permission and question banners: once you are back at the terminal, the answer is right in front of you in the TUI, and the dismissed banner sends no (stale) reply — the pending request simply remains answerable inline. Banners for a different tab stay until clicked, dismissed, or timed out.

Development

npm install
npm test        # unit tests for the pure logic (node --test)
npm run build   # tsc → dist/, copies assets

Release

Versioning is semver, enforced by scripts/release.mjs via npm run release:patch|minor|major. Policy, semver table, and publish rules live in AGENTS.md — read it before releasing.

To test against your local checkout, load it as a directory plugin by adding a file:// entry to the config (the repo keeps dev-only index.ts/tui.ts roots because directory plugins are resolved from those filenames, while the npm package uses exports):

{
  "plugins": ["file:///path/to/opencode-kde-interactive"]
}

Then restart the opencode service (opencode service restart) or start a fresh instance so the client loads the new ./tui entrypoint. The opencode plugin add command only accepts npm/Git package specifiers.