AUTOMATICALLY send urgent notifications when user input, decision, or immediate attention is required. Claude should proactively use this for: file conflicts, permission requests, critical errors requiring user choice, or when waiting for user response before proceeding. Essential for good UX - notify users immediately when blocked.

AUTOMATICALLY send success notifications when any significant task completes successfully. Claude should proactively use this for: builds finishing, tests passing, file operations completing, refactoring done, analysis complete, long operations finishing. Always notify users of completion for better UX.

AUTOMATICALLY send error notifications with error sound when anything fails. Claude must proactively use this when: compilation fails, tests fail, file operations fail, network requests fail, validation errors occur, bash commands fail. Critical for error awareness - always notify on failures.

SMART AUTO-NOTIFICATION: Intelligently analyze context and automatically send appropriate notifications. Claude should use this proactively for: task completion detection, error analysis, user action evaluation, progress updates. This is the primary notification tool - use it frequently to keep users informed.