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 <repo>/Nameplate.app/Contents/Helpers/nameplate).
• nameplate attention "<why you need the human>" --title "<agent> → <system>" [--duration <seconds>] [--color <hex>] [--wait] [--timeout <seconds>]
• 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" --wait
• Launches Nameplate.app if it is not running. By default the card stays until the human clicks it; pass --duration <seconds> (max 120) for auto-dismiss.
• Pass --wait to block until the human clicks or the alert ends. The default wait timeout is 600 seconds; override it with --timeout <seconds>.
• With --wait, exit 0 means clicked, 3 means app-driven dismissal, and 4 means the wait timed out or the request expired before presentation. Concurrent alerts queue in order.
• 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.