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Smoke Signal

Use Cases

Notifications for work you should not have to watch.

Receive a push notification when an agent, CI run, automation, or long-running job finishes or needs input. Remote can also start and steer supported agent tasks on a paired computer.

01

Agents

An agent needs input

Receive a notification when an agent reaches a permission prompt, approval, or question that needs you.

Approval needed

02

Continuous integration

A build, test, or deployment finishes

Get the final result from CI without keeping a dashboard or terminal open.

Build finished

03

Automation

A workflow needs attention

Send an existing API or webhook event to the Channel subscribers who need to act.

Workflow paused

04

Long-running tasks

A long-running job finishes

Send completion or failure from data processing, generation, or another job you do not want to monitor.

Task complete

05

Agents

An agent finishes or blocks

Receive the result when an agent finishes, or a notification when it blocks on something only you can resolve.

Agent blocked

06

Agents

An agent needs a Decision

Send a question with two to four choices through a Channel. A subscriber answers from the app, and the caller receives the selected answer.

Decision needed

07

Remote

Start work from your phone

Pair a computer, choose a maintained or Custom agent integration, and start a task from the app. Follow replies, answer questions, or interrupt the run.

Task started

The basics

Send with a webhook or API key.

  • Send Notifications with a Channel webhook or API key.
  • Create and claim Decisions with a Channel API key.
  • Subscribers can receive without creating an account.
  • An account can restore its subscriptions on up to five linked devices.

Get started

Install the app to receive your first notification.