Get notified when your coding agent finishes or needs approval
Midway is a Rust CLI that pings you when long commands finish and when Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other agents are done or waiting for approval. Install with cargo install midway-cli.
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@daviddanielng on X · 2026-10-17
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-17.
What they did
Midway is a Rust CLI that pings you when long commands finish and when Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other agents are done or waiting for approval. Install with cargo install midway-cli.
Result (as claimed)
Open source on crates.io.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Code: free plan, paid from $17/mo; OpenAI Codex: free plan, paid from $8/mo; Cursor: free plan, paid from $8/mo. Checked 2026-10-14.
Set it up
Pick a contained repo or task
Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.
Install and configure
Set up Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Rust. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.
Run it on a real task
Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.
Add guardrails
Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Get notified when your coding agent finishes or needs approval What the original author did: Midway is a Rust CLI that pings you when long commands finish and when Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other agents are done or waiting for approval. Install with cargo install midway-cli. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Open source on crates.io. Source: https://x.com/daviddanielng/status/2111480745126711714 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Rust Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Get notified when your coding agent finishes or needs approval What the original author did: Midway is a Rust CLI that pings you when long commands finish and when Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other agents are done or waiting for approval. Install with cargo install midway-cli. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Open source on crates.io. Source: https://x.com/daviddanielng/status/2111480745126711714 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Rust Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Get notified when your coding agent finishes or needs approval What the original author did: Midway is a Rust CLI that pings you when long commands finish and when Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other agents are done or waiting for approval. Install with cargo install midway-cli. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Open source on crates.io. Source: https://x.com/daviddanielng/status/2111480745126711714 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Rust Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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