lmk

A small command-line tool that shows a desktop notification when a task finishes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for sending one final success or failure message after work such as tests, builds, or fixes finishes.
Why use it?
It helps alert someone who is away from the terminal that a requested task has completed or failed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fgrehm/lmk/skill
Any agent
npx skills add fgrehm/lmk --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fgrehm/lmk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00080 $0.00548
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00274
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash 98919917dfce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lmk scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skill/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

lmk — notify on completion

When the user has asked to be notified on completion, run lmk once, after the task is fully done (whether it succeeded or failed). The dialog pops on the user's desktop; they may be AFK.

Command

lmk -m "<one-line summary>"
  • Summary should be short (under ~80 chars), factual, and say what finished.
  • Include success/failure state if relevant. Use "✅" for success, "❌" for failure.
  • If the user said "make sure I see it" / "don't let me miss it" / similar, add -a (ack mode) — it re-prompts until the user clicks Ack.

Examples

User: "run the tests and lmk when done" → Run the tests. Then:

lmk -m "✅ tests passed (142 ok, 0 failed)"

or on failure:

lmk -m "❌ tests failed — 3 failures in auth_test.go"

User: "fix the flaky test and lmk" → Fix it, confirm it works, then:

lmk -m "✅ flaky test fixed — rerun 10x clean"

User: "lmk when the build's done, don't let me miss it" → Run the build, then:

lmk -a -m "✅ build done"

Rules

  • Only once, at the end. Do not run lmk between subtasks or as progress updates. The dialog is intrusive.
  • Do not run lmk if the user did not ask for notification — this skill only activates on explicit "lmk" / "notify me" / "let me know" phrasing.
  • Do not use lmk <command> form (i.e. lmk npm test) inside the skill — run the command yourself, then call lmk -m with the result. You need to see the output to summarize it.
  • Summarize what happened, not what was asked. "tests passed" is better than "ran the tests you asked for".
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 50 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 98919917dfce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lmk is a skill published in the GitHub repository fgrehm/lmk (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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