The daemon enriches and stores notification records in SQLite. The desktop reads cursor-paginated history, listens for live updates, and preserves read state across restarts.

Available controls

filter Unread or All notifications;
open the related session or pull request;
mark individual records as read;
catch up through paginated history after the app reconnects.

Electron app toasts are a presentation of the same durable records while the desktop is running. There is no ao notify, ao setup, routing preset, JSONL notification store, or external notifier configuration in the current CLI.