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Codex app: Display a badge count in the dock for awaiting approvals #13629
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What variant of Codex are you using?
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What feature would you like to see?
Codex does a good job of showing notifications when it's done taking a turn or needs an approval. In the case of approvals, it'd be great if it was either the default, or configurable, to use badge notifications on the dock/cmd-tab app icon.
I take approvals to mean "the app needs your attention to proceed" which is certainly higher intent than the agent just finishing a turn. Given that, I'd recommend not using the badge notification for unread conversations, but instead just reserve it for pending approvals.
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github-actions commentedon Mar 5, 2026
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
notifyhook for approval-request events (not only turn completion) #11808Powered by Codex Action
MakcOS commentedon Aug 28, 2026
I strongly support this request.
For macOS, it would be especially useful if Codex could request user attention through the Dock when it reaches a state that requires user interaction.
For example, when Codex is waiting for:
the Dock icon could bounce until the user notices it, similar to how macOS applications normally request attention.
This is especially important during long-running Codex tasks. I often switch to another application while Codex is working, and the task can remain stalled for a long time simply because I don't know that Codex is waiting for me to click an approval button.
A Dock bounce / request-user-attention signal would solve this extremely well without requiring the user to constantly check the Codex window.