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How a desktop pet finds out your AI agent has finished a task

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CatCode is a pixel pet that lives on the Windows desktop and reacts when a coding agent finishes a task. This is a walkthrough of how that detection works, taken from the app's code (an Electron app). It is simpler than you might expect, and support differs by agent, so I will be specific about wha…

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  1. 2026-10-18 22:11 · DEV Community — AI
    How a desktop pet finds out your AI agent has finished a task

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