Windows Notifier

Send native Windows desktop notifications for local reminders, alerts, and background-attention events. Use when the user wants a Windows popup, a local toast notification, or when reminder/alert messages should prefer local desktop notification instead of only chat delivery.

Send a local Windows desktop notification on this machine.

This skill is a Windows-focused alias/wrapper around the shared desktop notification flow so agents can trigger a popup consistently when the user asks for a Windows reminder or when a reminder/alert should not rely only on chat visibility.

Use this skill for

• Local reminder popups
• Timer / study / schedule alerts
• Attention-needed notifications when chat may be in the background
• Windows-specific notification tests

Command

Run this from PowerShell with exec:

powershell

node "$env:USERPROFILE\.openclaw\workspace\skills\windows-notifier\scripts\send-notification.js" --title "<TITLE>" --message "<MESSAGE>" --timeout 10

Modern card / persistent dialog mode also goes through the same JS entry:

powershell

node "$env:USERPROFILE\.openclaw\workspace\skills\windows-notifier\scripts\send-notification.js" --title "<TITLE>" --message "<MESSAGE>" --mode modern --appName "OpenClaw"

Behavior summary:

• Windows + WPF available → prefer the built-in WPF modern card path in send-notification.js
• Windows fallback → if WPF is unavailable or launch fails, automatically fall back to node-notifier
• Linux / macOS → use the existing node-notifier path
• Current modern card behavior: auto-close after about 60 seconds; click the card itself to dismiss

Optional flags:

• --wait true|false
• --timeout <seconds|false|permanent>
• --sound true|false (default: true)
• --mode modern|card|dialog
• --appName <name>

Notes

• Keep the title short and the message concise.
• On Windows, --mode modern|card|dialog prefers the built-in WPF modern card path when available, and otherwise falls back to node-notifier automatically.
• --timeout false|permanent|sticky|0 is treated as a persistent request intent, but final behavior depends on the active backend (built-in WPF on capable Windows, otherwise node-notifier).
• Prefer this over chat-only reminders when the request is for a local popup.
• If a reminder or alert may be missed because OpenClaw is running in the background, prefer triggering this notifier in addition to or instead of chat delivery, depending on user intent.
• node-notifier remains the default non-Windows path and the cross-platform fallback mechanism.
• On first run after install, the script auto-installs dependencies in this skill directory if needed, so users do not need to run npm manually.