Choose how Yardmaster gets your attention

Yardmaster tells you when an agent finishes or needs you, with a notification from your computer, a sound, or a small pop-up inside the app. You choose which ones you get in Settings > Notifications.

Choose when you see system notifications#

System notifications are the messages your computer shows in the corner of the screen.

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   Open Settings > Notifications.

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   Under System notifications, pick Always, Only when backgrounded or Never.

Only when backgrounded is the default: you get a notification only while you are working in another app. Sounds still play with Never, unless you turn them off too.

Change or silence the sounds#

Notification Sound plays a chime inside Yardmaster, whatever you chose for system notifications. Turn it off, or pick a sound for each kind of event (for example Needs You or Stalled). You can add your own .wav, .mp3 or .ogg files under Custom sounds. Set how loud they are with Volume.

Fewer pop-ups inside the app#

In-app notifications lists the kinds of pop-up messages Yardmaster shows, each with its own switch. Recent notifications shows what just popped up, so you can mute that kind on the spot.

To hold notifications back while you concentrate, use Focus Mode.

Get notified on your phone#

When you use Yardmaster on your phone through Mobile Access, your phone can notify you when a session finishes or needs you, even when the browser is in the background. The first time, a banner offers Enable; tap it.

Each phone or browser has its own Push notifications switch in Settings > Notifications. It only shows on a phone or browser, not in the desktop app. If your browser blocks notifications for the page, the switch says so: allow them in the browser's site settings, then turn it on.

Know when Claude itself is down#

When Anthropic (the company behind Claude) has an outage, your sessions fail and it can look like your setup is broken. Anthropic outage alerts (on by default) watches Anthropic's public status page. During an incident you get one Inbox card with a View status page button and one notification; the card clears itself when Anthropic fixes it. The check uses no AI and costs nothing.

Hear about new AI models#

New model alerts (on by default) checks the AI services you have set up and puts a card in your Inbox when one offers a model Yardmaster does not list yet. For a new Claude model, the card has Use it now, and the model already appears in the session's model picker under Newly released.