Show HN: NotchClaude – approve Claude Code prompts from your Mac's notch

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Hey HN, built this after getting tired of alt-tabbing out of whatever I was doing every time Claude Code needed a permission prompt answered.It hooks into Claude Code s PreToolUse hook, forwards the request to a menu-bar app over a local unix socket, and renders it as a balloon dropping from the notch — works for both terminal sessions and Claude Desktop, since they read the same hook config.A few things that turned out more interesting than expected:- It fails open by design: if the app isn t running, times out, or errors, the hook exits silently and Claude falls back to its normal terminal prompt. It can t wedge a session. - No Accessibility or Screen Recording permissions — global hotkeys use the old Carbon hot-key API instead of an event tap.It s grown a few more things since the first version: real diffs on Edit calls, a rule manager, a history/observability view, and it can answer MCP servers own elicitation requests — a different, newer hook than the one behind AskUserQuestion, which turns out to be structurally unanswerable from a hook at all.Free, MIT licensed. Ad-hoc signed rather than notarized (needs a paid Apple dev account), so there s one Gatekeeper step on first launch — instructions on the site. Happy to answer questions.

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