Vibe Haptic 🫨

Haptic feedback from your coding agents.

Get tactile feedback when your AI agent completes tasks, encounters errors, or requests input — feel the rhythm of your coding session through your MacBook's trackpad.

Why?

"Why not just use system notifications?"

I tried that. Banners popping up, sounds dinging — it felt noisy and annoying. Every notification pulled my eyes away from what I was doing, broke my flow, and honestly just became another thing to dismiss.

I wanted something quieter. A subtle nudge that says "hey, I'm done" without screaming for attention. Something I could feel without having to look. (I'm the kind of person who always has Do Not Disturb on.)

That's what haptic feedback does — it's silent, ambient, and stays out of your way until you need it.

How It Works

Modern MacBooks have a Force Touch trackpad that doesn't physically click. Instead, it uses a linear actuator (Taptic Engine) to simulate the sensation of a click through precise vibrations.

Vibe Haptic taps into macOS's private MultitouchSupport.framework to trigger these haptic actuations programmatically. When your AI agent finishes a task or needs attention, the trackpad vibrates with distinct patterns you can feel under your fingers.

Installation

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add devxoul/vibe-haptic
claude plugin install vibe-haptic

Or within Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add devxoul/vibe-haptic
/plugin install vibe-haptic

OpenCode

Add to your opencode.jsonc:

{
  "plugins": [
    "vibe-haptic@1.1.0"
  ]
}

Configuration

Everything works out of the box — just install and go. But if you want to tweak the patterns or map different events, here's how.

Configuration File

Create vibe-haptic.json in your config directory:

• Claude Code: ~/.claude/vibe-haptic.json or .claude/vibe-haptic.json
• OpenCode: ~/.config/opencode/vibe-haptic.json or .opencode/vibe-haptic.json

{
  "patterns": {
    "success": { "beat": "6/1.5 6/0.8  4/0.5" },
    "error": { "beat": "6/2.0 6/2.0 6/2.0" }
  },
  "events": {
    "stop": "dopamine",
    "prompt": "alert"
  }
}

Events

Events map agent actions to haptic patterns:

Event	Trigger	Claude Code	OpenCode
stop	Agent finishes and becomes idle	✓	✓
prompt	Agent asks for input (select option, permission, etc.)	✓	✓

Trigger Details

stop event — Fires when the agent completes its work:

• Claude Code: Triggered by the Stop hook event when the agent finishes responding
• OpenCode: Triggered when session status changes to idle

prompt event — Fires when the agent needs your attention:

• Claude Code: Triggered by Notification hook events (permission requests, tool approvals, etc.)
• OpenCode: Triggered by permission.updated or question.asked events

Beat Patterns

Haptic feedback is defined using a beat notation:

"6/0.8 4/1.0  6/0.5"

• Digits (3-6): Actuation strength — 3 minimal, 4 medium, 5 weak, 6 strong
• /intensity: Optional intensity (0.0-2.0) — 6/0.5 = strong actuation at half intensity
• Spaces: Pauses between taps (100ms per space)

Examples:

• 6 6 6 — three strong taps with short pauses
• 6/2.0 6/0.5 — loud tap followed by soft tap
• 66 — rapid double tap (no pause)
• 6 6 — two taps with longer pause

Built-in Patterns

Pattern	Beat	Description
vibe	6/0.8 3/1.0 6/1.0	Signature rhythm (default for stop event)
alert	6/0.5 6/1.0 6/0.5	Attention pulse (default for prompt event)
dopamine	6666666 5/1.0 4/1.0 3/1.0	Reward cascade
noise	6543654365436543	Rapid texture

License

MIT