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Phone alerts

A push notification on your phone when an agent needs you, finishes, or its pull request fails CI.

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Settings on the phone: Allow alerts, what to be alerted about and quiet hours.
Settings on the phone: Allow alerts, what to be alerted about and quiet hours.

Turn alerts on

  1. Set up phone access and add ratchet to your home screen. On an iPhone this is required for alerts.
  2. On the phone, open More → Settings and press Allow alerts.
  3. Press Send test alert to check it works.

When you get one

AlertTitle
An agent asks a question or wants permissionratchet · Migrate orders to UUID keys needs you
An agent finishes its turnratchet · Bump vitest to 3.2 finished
CI fails on an agent's pull requestratchet · PR #214 CI failed

Tap an alert to open that agent, or that CI run.

When you don't

  • You're already looking at that agent on some device.
  • It's inside your quiet hours, or that alert type or repo is switched off in Settings.
  • Away mode is on and the agent is covered by it.
  • A turn was interrupted, or ended with background work still running.

Screenshots use example data. Written for ratchet 0.2.1.

ratchet is an independent project by Shervin Davarifard. Questions or problems: [email protected].© 2026 Shervin Davarifard · FSL-1.1-MIT licence