Configurable duration for in-app completion toast notifications

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
desktop, frontend

Research direction

Start with the Settings → Notifications entry point, the sonner toast setup, and the completion-notification hook described in the issue. Add a global duration setting, including a never-dismiss option, and verify that agent-completion toasts follow it without changing native OS notifications.

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Description

Before filing
  • I searched open and closed issues for duplicates.
  • I am using a recent release and this doesn't already exist.
  • This is one request, not several bundled together.
Closest existing issue

none found

Is this new, or an improvement?

Improvement — Berd does this, but badly

The problem, in your terms

In-app completion toast notifications (the "sonner" toasts that pop up when an agent turn finishes) auto-dismiss on a fixed, short timer. By the time I notice one and move my mouse to click it, it's already gone. There's no way to give myself more time, or to tell Berd "don't dismiss this until I act on it."

What you do today

Nothing — I just miss the notification and have to go find the relevant session/chat manually to see what happened. It's a small tax every time, but it happens constantly since it's tied to every agent turn completion.

What you'd like to see

A setting (e.g. under Settings → Notifications) that lets the user configure the toast's auto-dismiss duration in seconds, including an option to disable auto-dismiss entirely ("never dismiss until I close it").

Why this belongs in Berd itself

Toast duration is UI chrome owned entirely by the app shell (sonner toast + the completion-notification hook) — it isn't something a skill, agent, or extension can reach into, since those operate on the agent/session layer, not the desktop notification UI. This has to be a core settings change.

Non-goals
  • Not asking for changes to native OS-level notifications (the Tauri desktop notification that appears outside the app window) — those are governed by the OS's own notification center settings, out of scope here.
  • Not asking for per-notification-type durations (e.g. different timing for errors vs. success) — a single global duration setting is enough.
Alternatives you considered
  • Manually watching the corner of the screen — not a real fix, just a workaround.
  • Relying on native OS notifications instead of in-app toasts — doesn't solve it, since those disappear too and have their own OS-level settings we don't control.
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