feat(notify): make permission-prompt alerts on by default and discoverable - #1001
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…rable The notify system existed but was silent unless the user hand-edited config.json, with no UI surface to discover or change it. - resolver: fall back to mode=both, focusMode=unfocused when the notify block is missing or empty (Fixes Gitlawb#579) - tui: add /notify slash command with popup picker, mirroring /theme; explicit choices persist via config.SetNotify - cli: add `zero config notify` to read/update/reset the preference (--mode, --focus, --reset, --json) - config: add SetNotify writer using the existing atomic-write helper, validating against the same vocab the resolver accepts The TUI effectiveTUINotifyMode default (empty -> both) now matches the resolver. exec_test.go seeds notify.mode=off where a test asserted silent stderr, which the old empty-default implicitly provided.
# Conflicts: # internal/config/writer.go # internal/tui/model.go # internal/tui/model_test.go # internal/tui/picker.go
WalkthroughThe change adds ChangesNotification preferences
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Notification preferences can now be managed without a configured provider, but reset help text incorrectly implies defaults apply outside the TUI. This is a bounded documentation issue that should be corrected before or shortly after merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TUI
participant NotificationCommand
participant UserConfig
participant Notifier
TUI->>NotificationCommand: submit /notify mode and focus
NotificationCommand->>UserConfig: read and persist user preference
NotificationCommand->>Notifier: configure live notification policy
Notifier-->>TUI: apply notification behavior
NotificationCommand-->>TUI: display status
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In `@internal/cli/config_notify.go`:
- Line 37: Update the notification update flow around the notify construction
and config.SetNotify so omitted mode or focus flags reuse their current resolved
values instead of empty values; keep --reset as the sole path that clears both
fields. Add tests covering mode-only and focus-only updates.
In `@internal/tui/notify_select.go`:
- Line 64: Update the `/notify` handler’s token validation to reject inputs
containing more than two tokens, while preserving the existing handling for
valid one- and two-token commands. Ensure trailing arguments such as extra words
are not treated as successful changes.
- Around line 72-73: Update the notify-mode handling around m.notifyMode,
m.notifyFocusMode, and m.notifier so the live notify.Notifier receives the
selected configuration before reporting the change as active; keep
persistNotifyPreference for subsequent startups.
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- cli: omitted --mode/--focus flags now preserve the current resolved value instead of wiping it (--reset remains the only clearing path); aligns the CLI with the TUI's mode-only preservation behavior - tui: reject /notify inputs with more than two tokens instead of silently accepting them - tui: apply /notify choices to the live notifier via the new notify.Notifier.Configure, so the change takes effect on the next permission prompt in the same session (the previous message claimed this but only the persisted value was updated) - notify: add Notifier.Configure (mutex-guarded policy swap that preserves sinks, focus state, and the writer) - tests: mode-only/focus-only CLI preservation, live-notifier apply, trailing-argument rejection, Configure immediate-effect + sink retention
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In `@internal/notify/notify.go`:
- Line 80: Update Notify to acquire n.mu before reading n.cfg, perform the mode
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Configure (334c688) made cfg mutable at runtime, but Notify still read n.cfg.Mode before acquiring n.mu — a data race with a concurrent Configure. Move the mode check inside the critical section and copy cfg to a local for all reads. Regression test TestConfigureConcurrentWithNotify runs Configure concurrently with Notify; verified it reports DATA RACE on the unfixed code and passes after the fix (go test -race -count=5).
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Thanks for this, and sorry it sat unreviewed for a while. The feature is worth having and the lock fix in the last commit is right. Three things to fix before it lands, and they are all one mistake, so I have written them as one.
The root of it: the PR treats the resolved config as if it were the user's choice. config.Resolve now fills in notify.mode when the user set nothing, and three separate paths then read that filled-in value back as though a person had picked it.
1. The default reaches headless zero exec, and the change that hides it is in the test fixture.
exec.go:505 builds the notifier with FocusMode: FocusAlways and no TTY or CI check, with a comment saying it always emits when a mode is configured. Before this PR an unconfigured user resolved to an empty mode and the notifier returned before writing; now it writes. On head an ordinary zero exec puts 17 bytes of BEL and OSC-9 on stderr where base wrote nothing, including under -o json and -o stream-json.
The only change this PR makes to that path is adding "notify": {"mode": "off"} to the fixture of TestRunExecUsesProjectConfigAndOpenAICompatibleProvider, which is the repo's existing empty-stderr canary. Put the fixture back the way base has it and the test fails on its own property assertion:
exec_test.go:992: expected empty stderr, got "\a\x1b]9;Zero: ready\a"
--- FAIL: TestRunExecUsesProjectConfigAndOpenAICompatibleProvider
The decisive part is that the resolver default is not needed for the feature at all. effectiveTUINotifyMode at internal/tui/model.go:890 already maps an empty mode to both on the TUI side by itself, so moving the default out of Resolve and leaving it to the TUI makes exec silent again, lets that fixture go back, and keeps the behaviour you actually want. Worth noting too that zero exec emits Completion, while the permission-prompt alert this PR is about is AwaitingInput from model.go:5642 and :5678, so exec was never in scope. A rider on the same cause: with ZERO_NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_URL set, a headless run now POSTs on every completion where base sent none, which also makes webhook_wire.go's "for example --notify both" comment stale.
2. zero config notify writes a value the user did not choose into their global config.
config_notify.go:40 seeds the write from resolved.Notify, which is project-merged and default-filled, and config.SetNotify then replaces the whole block in the user file. So running zero config notify --focus always inside a repo whose .zero/config.json sets mode: off copies that project's off into the user's global config, where it follows them into every other project, even though the only flag they passed was --focus. With no project config at all, --mode off still writes focusMode: unfocused, pinning today's built-in default as an explicit choice, which contradicts SetNotify's own comment that a blank value means use defaults.
The comment above that block only reasons about the omitted-flag case, and it is right that a full replace would be wrong. The missing half is that the preserved value has to come from the user's own file, not from the resolved view. Nothing pins this: none of the new tests pass a ProjectConfigPath, so resolved and user are the same object and the bug cannot show. The same shape is in the TUI's mode-only branch at notify_select.go:73, which reuses m.notifyFocusMode seeded from the resolved value.
3. The picker preselects a row that is not your current setting, and Enter commits it.
picker.go:1073 says the active pair is preselected so Enter keeps it, and that holds for the four canned rows. For the other eight valid pairs the cursor falls to row 0, so opening a bare /notify on (off, always) and pressing Enter writes (both, unfocused). /notify bell, the value the command's own usage string advertises, produces a pair the picker cannot represent, and the "Bell only" row means (bell, always), so the two surfaces disagree on what bell is. TestNotifyPickerOpensOnBareNotify asserts preselection only for an in-list pair, so all eleven notify tests stay green. newThemePicker enumerates its whole domain, which is why the same fallback is harmless there.
The fix, as one change. Move the default out of config.Resolve into the TUI, where effectiveTUINotifyMode already does the job. Seed the zero config notify write, and the TUI's mode-only branch, from the user config file's own notify block so an omitted flag preserves the user's value and a blank field stays blank. Then either enumerate the full mode and focus space in the picker the way the theme picker does, or keep the four curated rows and refuse to commit on Enter when the active pair is not one of them. Three tests would have caught all of this: one that zero exec writes nothing to stderr on a clean run, one that passes a ProjectConfigPath to zero config notify, and one that sends Enter to an open picker from a pair that is not in the list.
Things I checked that are fine, so you do not need to chase them: the concurrency fix is load-bearing and reachable, since Configure runs on the update goroutine and Notify fires from the run goroutine; an explicit opt-out survives resolution in every shape including whitespace and both config layers; the picker opens no new path to a permission decision and does not disturb pending attachments; only Enter and the repeat click commit, and navigation, Esc, resize and paste write nothing; SetNotify validates both fields, preserves unrelated top-level keys and writes through temp-file and rename. The unknown-key loss in writeConfigFile is pre-existing and repo-wide, not something this PR introduces, and action.yml already passes --no-notify, so CI job logs are not the exposed surface. Direct zero exec from a script or cron is.
…wn values Addresses the maintainer review (Vasanthdev2004) on PR Gitlawb#1001. All three findings share one root cause: the resolved config was treated as if it were the user's choice. - resolver: no longer defaults notify.mode/focusMode. The TUI's effectiveTUINotifyMode already maps empty -> both on its own, so the permission-prompt alert still works out of the box, while headless `zero exec` stays byte-identical to base (no BEL/OSC-9 on stderr under -o json), the exec empty-stderr fixture is restored, and the ZERO_NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_URL sink is not armed by an implicit default. - cli: `zero config notify` seeds omitted fields from the user's own file (new config.UserNotify), never from the resolved view — a project config's mode:off can no longer be copied into the user's global config, and blank stays blank instead of pinning today's default as an explicit choice. --reset remains the only clearing path. - tui: /notify mode-only changes preserve the focus stored in the user's own file (blank stays blank); the /notify picker enumerates the full 4x3 mode x focus space so every valid pair is a row, the current pair is always preselected, and Enter can never commit a setting the user did not choose. State view reads the stored pair. - tests: the three regressions from the review — exec writes nothing to stderr on a clean run (fixture restored + resolver empty-default test), a ProjectConfigPath test proving project notify cannot leak into the user file, and Enter on an open picker from a pair outside the old curated list (off, always) keeps the setting unchanged.
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Thank you for the thorough review — implemented in 18e851a, exactly the one-change shape you described. Root cause removed: the resolver no longer fills notify defaults. Defaults live only where a human is sitting — the TUI's
All three of your suggested tests are in, plus the TUI/CLI/config suites updated to the new semantics: Also confirmed your "checked, fine" list stayed that way — the race fix, atomic write, validation, and opt-out paths are untouched by this commit. |
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27-27: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDecouple notification preferences from provider resolution.
Line 27 resolves providers before this command reads or writes notification settings.
config.ResolvereturnsErrNoActiveProviderwhen no provider is configured. A fresh user therefore cannot runzero config notify --mode bell,--reset, or the read-only command.Read and write the user notification block without requiring an active provider. Use the stored values and the default marker for output when provider resolution is unavailable.
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The command resolved the full config (providers included) before touching notification settings, so a fresh user with no provider hit ErrNoActiveProvider and could not read, set, or reset their notify preference — the exact first-run user this feature targets (CodeRabbit review, PR Gitlawb#1001). The command manages a user preference, so it now talks only to the user's own config file (config.UserNotify / config.SetNotify) and never runs config resolution. Display reports the user's stored values — a project config that overrides notify for one repo is not shown here, matching the write path's source-of-truth from the maintainer review.
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Addressed the advisory from the latest review in 703d9f5: The command manages a user preference, so it now talks only to the user's own config file ( Side effect, consistent with the maintainer's direction on the write path: the read/display now reports the user's stored values rather than the project-merged view — a project config that overrides notify for one repo is not shown here (it still applies inside that project's sessions; this command manages the user-level preference). |
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160-160: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDescribe reset as a TUI default, not a resolver default.
config.Resolvepreserves empty notification fields. It does not applybothorunfocused. After--reset, non-TUI paths remain silent, while the TUI applies its effective defaults. Replace “resolver defaults apply” with wording that identifies the TUI behavior.Proposed fix
- zero config notify --reset # clear config so the resolver defaults apply + zero config notify --reset # clear stored values so TUI defaults apply ... - --reset Clear both fields so the resolver defaults apply + --reset Clear both stored fields so TUI defaults applyAlso applies to: 165-165
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Approving at 703d9f5c. All three are closed, and I drove each one on both heads rather than reading the diff.
The default is out of the resolver, and the canary is back. exec_test.go's fixture no longer opts out, and TestRunExecUsesProjectConfigAndOpenAICompatibleProvider passes because zero exec is silent again rather than because it was told not to look. The TUI keeps its default through effectiveTUINotifyMode, which is the split I was hoping for. The webhook rider goes with it: Notify still returns early on an empty mode, so an unconfigured headless run sends nothing.
Blank stays blank. A user who has never touched notify running zero config notify --mode off:
15929bf4 -> {"mode":"off","focusMode":"unfocused"} today's default pinned as a choice
703d9f5c -> {"mode":"off"} focusMode left blank
Seeding from config.UserNotify instead of the resolved value is the right fix, and not resolving providers at all is a better call than the one I suggested, since it also unblocks a brand-new user who has not configured a provider yet.
Every valid pair has a row. Twelve now, four modes by three focus modes. Narrowing the focus list back fails your own tests on preselected = "both unfocused", want the current pair "off always", which is the exact case I reported.
You also went past what I asked for in one place worth calling out: /notify <mode> with no focus token now preserves the focus from the user's own file rather than the in-session value. That was the same leak one layer down and I had only mentioned it in passing.
Seven checks green on this head. One process note, not about your code: the fork CI gate had reset on the new commits, so both runs were sitting at action_required with nothing but CodeRabbit having run. I checked the new commits touch no workflow or dependency files and released it. Worth knowing that a PR from a fork can look like it has passing checks when the real ones have not started.
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The notify system (terminal bell + OSC-9 desktop notification on permission prompts and completion) already existed, but it was silent by default and undiscoverable: the resolver left
notify.mode/focusModeempty unless the user hand-edited~/.config/zero/config.json, and there was no UI surface to find or change the setting. A first-run user sees a permission prompt with no alert and reasonably concludes permission prompts are broken.This PR makes the alert work out of the box and adds two discoverable surfaces, all going through one writer so they stay in lockstep:
notifyblock is missing or empty, fall back tomode=both,focusMode=unfocused(internal/config/resolver.go). Users who explicitly setoffor any other value are unaffected./notifyslash command (TUI): popup picker with four (mode, focus) pairs, mirroring the existing/themepicker pattern (internal/tui/notify_select.go,internal/tui/picker.go). Explicit choices persist to user config. A mode-only argument preserves the existing focus rule.zero config notify(CLI): print current values, or update with--mode <off|bell|notify|both> --focus <unfocused|always|focused>,--resetto clear,--jsonfor scripts (internal/cli/config_notify.go).config.SetNotifywriter: read-modify-atomic-write via the existingwriteConfigFilehelper, validating against the same vocabulary the resolver accepts (internal/config/writer.go).Notes on two changes that are downstream of the default, not scope creep:
effectiveTUINotifyMode(empty →ModeBothinstead ofModeOff) exists so the TUI's notifier and the resolver agree on the default — required by the first bullet of the issue.internal/cli/exec_test.goadds"notify": {"mode": "off"}to one test's fixture because that test asserted empty stderr, which the old silent default implicitly provided.Linked issue
Per CONTRIBUTING.md, linked to the approved parent issue:
Fixes #579
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issue-approvedlabel.go build ./...,go vet ./..., andgo test ./...pass locally.gofmtclean.-racewhere relevant).Tests: 25 new (7 resolver defaults, 5
SetNotify, 9/notifycommand + picker, 7zero config notify— one later reworked as part of a simplification pass), 1 updated (TestEffectiveTUINotifyMode), full suitego test ./... -racegreen across 74 packages, plusgo run ./cmd/zero-release buildandsmokelocally.Screenshots to follow in a follow-up comment on this PR (terminal-only change; the picker renders inside the TUI).
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/notifyto configure, disable, or view notification preferences during a session.zero config notifyand related help and summary commands.Improvements