How do you steer your coding agents when you're away from the laptop?

As a PM at a startup, I'm rarely at my desk. A typical morning: sync with engineering, code for 10 minutes, jump into a UI/UX workshop, try to squeeze in 15 min of rapid Q&A with Claude, grab coffee, take a call, eat something on the way to the next thing...

Meanwhile I've got Claude Code running in the background on a few tasks.

Come back 20 minutes later. One agent has been waiting on my approval the whole time. One asked a clarifying question 15 minutes ago and just sat there. One is mid-loop on the wrong thing and I could've redirected it if I'd seen it sooner.

Things I've tried:

• --dangerously-skip-permissions; Too risky, I can't afford to nuke the project.

• /goal and longer upfront prompts; They help, but I still can't course-correct in the moment something starts drifting.

The agents themselves keep getting better. The part that hasn't caught up is the small human-in-the-loop moments — approvals, clarifying questions, "are you sure", a quick redirect. Miss the moment and the agent just waits, or worse, keeps going the wrong way.

Curious what everyone here is doing:

- Phone notifications? Custom hooks? ntfy / Pushover / Slack bot?

- Just live with it and check back periodically?

- Something else?

I'm genuinely curious how people are solving the visibility + steering problem today.

What's working for you?