diff --git a/packages/schema/package.json b/packages/schema/package.json
index 5265796b9..75b71d619 100644
--- a/packages/schema/package.json
+++ b/packages/schema/package.json
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@
         "semver": "^7.5.2",
         "sleep-promise": "^9.1.0",
         "strip-color": "^0.1.0",
+        "terminal-link": "^2.0.0",
         "tiny-invariant": "^1.3.1",
         "ts-morph": "^16.0.0",
         "ts-pattern": "^4.3.0",
diff --git a/packages/schema/src/cli/actions/generate.ts b/packages/schema/src/cli/actions/generate.ts
index 44ad55612..d697504ee 100644
--- a/packages/schema/src/cli/actions/generate.ts
+++ b/packages/schema/src/cli/actions/generate.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
     getZenStackPackages,
     loadDocument,
     requiredPrismaVersion,
+    showNotification,
 } from '../cli-util';
 import { PluginRunner, PluginRunnerOptions } from '../plugin-runner';
 
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ type Options = {
     withPlugins?: string[];
     withoutPlugins?: string[];
     defaultPlugins: boolean;
+    offline?: boolean;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -48,11 +50,19 @@ export async function generate(projectPath: string, options: Options) {
 
     await runPlugins(options);
 
-    if (options.versionCheck) {
-        // note that we can't run plugins and do version check concurrently because
-        // plugins are CPU-bound and can cause version check to false timeout
-        await checkNewVersion();
+    // note that we can't run online jobs concurrently with plugins because
+    // plugins are CPU-bound and can cause false timeout
+    const postJobs: Promise<void>[] = [];
+
+    if (options.versionCheck && !options.offline) {
+        postJobs.push(checkNewVersion());
+    }
+
+    if (!options.offline) {
+        postJobs.push(showNotification());
     }
+
+    await Promise.all(postJobs);
 }
 
 async function runPlugins(options: Options) {
diff --git a/packages/schema/src/cli/cli-util.ts b/packages/schema/src/cli/cli-util.ts
index 6db9eaaf3..43216656e 100644
--- a/packages/schema/src/cli/cli-util.ts
+++ b/packages/schema/src/cli/cli-util.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ import { getDocument, LangiumDocument, LangiumDocuments, linkContentToContainer
 import { NodeFileSystem } from 'langium/node';
 import path from 'path';
 import semver from 'semver';
+import terminalLink from 'terminal-link';
 import { TextDocument } from 'vscode-languageserver-textdocument';
 import { URI } from 'vscode-uri';
+import { z } from 'zod';
 import { PLUGIN_MODULE_NAME, STD_LIB_MODULE_NAME } from '../language-server/constants';
 import { ZModelFormatter } from '../language-server/zmodel-formatter';
 import { createZModelServices, ZModelServices } from '../language-server/zmodel-module';
@@ -20,6 +22,8 @@ import { CliError } from './cli-error';
 export const requiredPrismaVersion = '4.8.0';
 
 const CHECK_VERSION_TIMEOUT = 1000;
+const FETCH_CLI_CONFIG_TIMEOUT = 500;
+const CLI_CONFIG_ENDPOINT = 'https://zenstack.dev/config/cli.json';
 
 /**
  * Loads a zmodel document from a file.
@@ -364,3 +368,33 @@ async function relinkAll(model: Model, services: ZModelServices) {
 
     return newDoc.parseResult.value as Model;
 }
+
+export async function showNotification() {
+    try {
+        const fetchResult = await fetch(CLI_CONFIG_ENDPOINT, {
+            headers: { accept: 'application/json' },
+            signal: AbortSignal.timeout(FETCH_CLI_CONFIG_TIMEOUT),
+        });
+
+        if (!fetchResult.ok) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        const data = await fetchResult.json();
+        const schema = z.object({
+            notifications: z.array(z.object({ title: z.string(), url: z.string().url(), active: z.boolean() })),
+        });
+        const parseResult = schema.safeParse(data);
+
+        if (parseResult.success) {
+            const activeItems = parseResult.data.notifications.filter((item) => item.active);
+            // return a random active item
+            if (activeItems.length > 0) {
+                const item = activeItems[Math.floor(Math.random() * activeItems.length)];
+                console.log(terminalLink(item.title, item.url));
+            }
+        }
+    } catch {
+        // noop
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/schema/src/cli/index.ts b/packages/schema/src/cli/index.ts
index 20207772a..e8773fddd 100644
--- a/packages/schema/src/cli/index.ts
+++ b/packages/schema/src/cli/index.ts
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ export function createProgram() {
         'pnpm',
     ]);
     const noVersionCheckOption = new Option('--no-version-check', 'do not check for new version');
-    const noDependencyCheck = new Option('--no-dependency-check', 'do not check if dependencies are installed');
+    const noDependencyCheckOption = new Option('--no-dependency-check', 'do not check if dependencies are installed');
+    const offlineOption = new Option('--offline', 'run in offline mode');
 
     program
         .command('info')
@@ -125,7 +126,8 @@ export function createProgram() {
         .addOption(new Option('--no-default-plugins', 'do not run default plugins'))
         .addOption(new Option('--no-compile', 'do not compile the output of core plugins'))
         .addOption(noVersionCheckOption)
-        .addOption(noDependencyCheck)
+        .addOption(noDependencyCheckOption)
+        .addOption(offlineOption)
         .action(generateAction);
 
     program
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index dfff08d8f..71318ecb6 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -528,6 +528,9 @@ importers:
       strip-color:
         specifier: ^0.1.0
         version: 0.1.0
+      terminal-link:
+        specifier: ^2.0.0
+        version: 2.1.1
       tiny-invariant:
         specifier: ^1.3.1
         version: 1.3.3