Toast Daemon

The Toast Daemon turns entries in ~/.config/robos/notifications.json into on-screen toasts. Anything that appends an entry with read: false and a new id triggers one, for example robos-notify from RobOS CLI Tools or the lock notice from Pass Manager.

Behavior

Categories are pr_review, ci_cd, task, agent, security and system. Event names such as ci_failed or pass_locked map to a category.
Tiers are critical, warning, info and security. By default critical and security toasts stay until dismissed, warning fades after 12 seconds and info after 5.
Stack. Up to 5 toasts are visible (default), 380 px wide, in a corner chosen in settings (default top-right).
Do Not Disturb. Non-critical toasts are suppressed. Critical, security and sticky ones are queued and shown when DND ends.
Quiet hours (default 22:00 to 07:00, off by default) and an anti-spam limiter: a 30 second cooldown for repeats, at most 4 toasts per 10 seconds, and dropping exact duplicates. Critical and security alerts bypass the limiter by default.
A toast with an open-app action asks the desktop manager to launch that app, through the socket named by ROBOS_DM_SOCKET or /tmp/robos-dm-<uid>.sock.

The delivery-mode setting (Smart Dual, RobOS Rich Toasts Only, Ubuntu GNOME Native Only, Both Always) only controls whether this daemon shows its overlay. In native-only mode it suppresses overlay toasts. The daemon does not itself send GNOME notifications; robos-notify does that with notify-send when it is installed.

The console window

RobOS Toast Notification Console has the tabs Monitor & Stack, Delivery & Dual-Notifications, Anti-Spam & Respam, Auto-Fade & Timing, Position & Appearance, Category Matrix, Sandbox & Auth Simulator, and Event Audit Stream. The sandbox tab has preset buttons that fire sample toasts (CI build passed, PR review requested, CI pipeline blocked, task assigned, security auth request). Use Save Preferences to store settings in ~/.config/robos/notification-prefs.json, Reset Defaults to restore them, and Dismiss All to clear the stack.

Run it

Launch RobOS Toast Daemon from the app launcher, or run npm start in packages/robos-toast. Only one instance runs at a time. Closing the console window does not quit the daemon.

More in Desktop & Command Center

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