The promise of background coding agents is that you kick off a task and go do something else. The reality, for a lot of people, is kicking off a task, doing something else, and coming back forty minutes later to find the agent stopped three minutes in, waiting for permission to run a command.
An agent that waits silently is worse than an agent that interrupts you, because the silence costs you the whole gap. Here is every practical way to get notified the moment a Claude Code agent needs your input.
Disclosure: I work on Blume, covered as one option below.
Option 1: Claude Code's agent view
Claude Code has a built-in answer for multiple sessions: agent view. It shows what every session is doing and which ones need input, lets you dispatch new sessions, and while it is open, the terminal tab title shows a count of sessions awaiting input.
