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Add Brief Summary to Notification MessagesPublic

The user wanted to include a brief summary in notification messages to better convey progress and results. The outcome was that notifications were enhanced to append a concise summary of completed and pending tasks, showing key progress details in various notification types such as completion, errors, and ongoing progress updates. This made the notifications more informative and helpful.

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Claude Code

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Claude Opus 4.6

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Feb 15, 7:10 PM

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Can we add a short summary to the notification message?

Let me look at how notifications are currently sent.

Greppednotif|discord|send_

Readnotify.sh

Readralph.sh

Now I understand the notification flow. The notifications are sent from ralph.sh at various points (start, progress, complete, error, etc.) but they don't include any summary of what was accomplished. I'll add a function to extract a short summary from the progress file and include it in the relevant notifications.

Let me check what the progress file typically looks like.

GreppedPROGRESS|progress.*file

Readshadow_PROGRESS.md

Good, now I can see the progress file format. The progress file has a task list with [x] for completed and [ ] for pending tasks. I'll add a function to extract a brief summary (last completed task or task counts) and include it in the notification messages.

Readralph.sh30 lines

Now I'll add the summary function and update the notification messages.

Now update the notification messages to include the summary. Let me update the completion, max-iterations, progress, and error notifications.

Now let me verify the changes look correct.

Readralph.sh50 lines

Let me also quickly verify the notification call sites look right.

GreppedSUMMARY_BLOCK|get_progress_summary

Let me also do a quick syntax check.

Syntax is clean. Here's what I added:

get_progress_summary() - parses the progress file and returns a compact summary like:

Tasks: 3/7
Last: Add input validation to API endpoints

This summary is now appended to all four notification types:

Complete - shows final task tally + last completed task
Max iterations reached - shows how far it got
Error - shows progress before the failure
Progress (periodic) - shows current task status

The summary is omitted if there's no task list yet (e.g., the start notification stays unchanged). Task names longer than 60 chars get truncated with ....