NcSession now captures the frontmost application before opening
Notification Center and reactivates it on close, preventing the
source app (e.g. Script Editor) from stealing focus during dismiss.
AXPress "clicks" the notification body (opening the source app) but
does not actually dismiss it. Removing it from the initial action list
forces the code to fall through to the hover-and-close-button strategy,
which reliably removes the notification from Notification Center.
- fix(core): wait --notification uses index-diff detection instead of
count, passes text filter, checks deadline before sleep
- fix(core): dismiss-all-notifications uses single NC session with
batch adapter method and reports individual failures
- refactor(macos): extract dismiss_entry helper to eliminate duplicate
dismiss logic between single and batch operations
- refactor(macos): restrict nc_session visibility to pub(crate), use
absolute paths for pgrep/osascript, add bounded wait with kill
fallback
- refactor(macos): single-pass is_notification_group check using
matches! macro
- refactor: extract notification CLI args and dispatch into separate
files to keep cli_args.rs and dispatch.rs under 400 LOC
- refactor: rename DismissAllNotificationsArgs to
DismissAllNotificationsCliArgs for consistency
- fix(core): remove unused timestamp field from NotificationInfo
- fix: remove poll_interval_ms from wait command (hardcode 500ms)
- docs: update phases.md with completed notification status and
cross-platform reference notes
Try AXDismiss/AXRemoveFromParent/AXPress on the notification group
element before falling back to cursor hover. Extract try_dismiss_button
helper. Cursor-based hover only triggers if all headless strategies
fail.
CGWindowList requires Screen Recording permission on macOS Sequoia to
read other processes' window names, and SystemUIServer blocks AX access
to its menu bar (crashes with Obj-C foreign exception). Switch to pgrep
for PID lookup and osascript clicking ControlCenter's Clock menu bar
item, spawned async to avoid blocking.
Add error code serialization and notification_not_found tests in core.
Add matches_filters unit tests in macOS list module covering app,
text, combined, and no-filter cases.
Dismiss synthesizes mouse hover to reveal close button (Sequoia), then
finds and AXPress it. Falls back to AXPress on notification group.
Notification action finds matching AXButton by name and presses it.
Both reuse shared list_entries for AX element access.
Traverses NC's AX tree to extract notification info (app, title, body,
actions). Handles variable nesting depth across Sonoma/Sequoia via
recursive heuristic matching. Supports --app, --text, and --limit
filters applied during traversal for early termination.
Implements NcSession for safe Notification Center lifecycle management
(open via AX press on clock, close via Escape, with Drop fallback).
Wires list_notifications, dismiss_notification, and notification_action
adapter methods to placeholder stubs pending Phase 3/4 implementation.
Rect deserialization now tolerates null/missing fields (defaults to 0.0),
preventing corrupt refmaps from breaking all subsequent click commands.
read_bounds rejects NaN/Inf at the source. Sidebar cells now resolve via
parent row AXSelected instead of falling through to CGClick. Extracted
chain step functions into chain_steps.rs to stay within 400 LOC limit.
- dispatch.rs: 460 → 392 LOC by removing duplicate command_name(),
using cmd.name() from cli.rs, and moving cli_surface_to_core to
Surface::to_core() in cli_args.rs
- ElementCaps: trim from 8 to 3 used fields, remove has_action() and
unused discovery calls (actions, role, has_children, pid, settable_value)
- chain.rs: deduplicate ChainStep/ChainDef/ChainContext out of cfg gates
- ax_helpers.rs: delete dead set_ax_string
Adds tracing::debug! calls throughout command and adapter layers,
activated via -v flag. Logs command dispatch, ref resolution, chain
step execution, clipboard/keyboard/mouse synthesis, and system ops.
Command layer logging (free for all platforms):
- dispatch: command name
- resolve: ref lookup with pid/role/name, match result
- tree: snapshot app/window/ref_count
Adapter layer logging (macOS, other platforms add their own):
- chain: step-by-step [N/total] with success/skip for each
- action: perform entry
- clipboard/keyboard/mouse: operation details
- system: app focus/launch/close, window ops, screenshots
Graph of skills covering all 50 commands with platform-specific sub-skills:
- Main index skill with core concepts, ref system, JSON contract
- Observation, interaction, and system command references
- Common workflow patterns (forms, menus, dialogs, drag-drop)
- macOS platform skill (permissions, AX API, troubleshooting)
- /desktop slash command for quick reference
- PRD addendum for skill maintenance across phases
cargo-workspace plugin cannot parse version.workspace = true in member
crates. Switch to simple strategy with generic file updater using
x-release-please-version annotation in root Cargo.toml.
Automated release pipeline using release-please for gated Release PRs,
conventional commits for SemVer version bumps, and npm distribution
with postinstall binary download from GitHub Releases.
Multi-column apps like Notes, Mail, and Finder bury the editor
textfield deep in the tree (e.g. ref 256 of 272). Agents picking
"the first textfield" grab the wrong one. Column hints let agents
distinguish sidebar vs content-list vs editor panes.
- Add 7-step right-click chain: AXShowMenu direct, focus-app +
AXShowMenu, select + AXShowMenu, focus-element + AXShowMenu,
parent AXShowMenu, child AXShowMenu, CGEvent last resort
- Key fix: AXShowMenu returns -25204 (CannotComplete) when app
isn't frontmost; ensure_app_focused via AX resolves this
- Right-click command now returns full context menu tree inline
with ref_ids on all menuitems for immediate agent interaction
- Remove surface-based menu detection (menu lives in regular tree)
- Clean up debug tracing from resolve.rs
- Rewrite ax_scroll with 10-step AX-first chain (scroll-to-visible,
increment/decrement, page scroll, value shift, sub-element press,
focus child, select rows, keyboard, arrow keys, CGEvent last resort)
- Add ensure_app_focused() guard before all CGEvent calls
- Enhance smart_activate with AXScrollToVisible pre-step,
AXShowAlternateUI, AXCustomActions, and keyboard space fallback
- Fix bounds_hash always null in RefMap (always read bounds in builder)
- Add right-click menu capture in response data
- Add append_surface_refs for post-action menu detection
