When I let Claude Code hammer away in the background while I work on something else, it regularly drifts into the weeds. By the time I notice, it may have spent many minutes pushing in the wrong direction. If I had just noticed earlier...
Luckily, you can install a baby monitor quite easily on macOS by adding the following instructions to CLAUDE.md (or AGENT.md for opencode, etc.):
Whenever you
– make important progress
– get stuck on the same issue repeatedly, or
– finish the task
use the `say` command to tell me what’s going on.