# Nameplate Attention > On-screen agent alert: topmost message card + pulsating screen borders via Nameplate. Use before password-manager auth prompts or whenever blocked on the human. - Skill: `patrickserrano/nameplate-attention` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add patrickserrano/nameplate-attention` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/patrickserrano/nameplate-attention/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: AI & ML - Author: patrickserrano (https://skillmd.com/u/patrickserrano) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/patrickserrano/nameplate-attention --- # Nameplate Attention Grab the human's attention at the Mac: a topmost message card plus pulsating colored borders on every display. Always include the reason — never fire a contextless alert. ## Command - Binary: `nameplate` — `/Applications/Nameplate.app/Contents/Helpers/nameplate` (symlink it onto your PATH; a repo checkout build lives at `/Nameplate.app/Contents/Helpers/nameplate`). - `nameplate attention "" --title " → " [--duration ] [--color ]` - Example, right before an interactive 1Password `op` prompt (which carries no reason field of its own): `nameplate attention "Need 1Password approval for release verification; no secret read." --title "Codex → 1Password"` - Launches Nameplate.app if it is not running. By default the card stays until the human clicks it; pass `--duration ` (max 120) for auto-dismiss. - Requests are timestamped; anything older than 2 minutes is dropped, so a login-time launch never replays stale alerts. ## Extras - `nameplate splash` — replay the identity splash (which Mac is this?). - `nameplate settings` — open Nameplate settings. - No CLI at hand? `notifyutil -p com.steipete.nameplate.splash` works from any shell, including SSH. Source: [steipete/nameplate](https://github.com/steipete/nameplate/blob/main/skills/nameplate-attention/SKILL.md), adopted as-is.