macOS · menu-bar utility

Your coding agents, at a glance.

A tiny menu-bar app that keeps an eye on your background coding agents. Agent Light watches Codex and Claude Code and shows each one as a traffic light — so you never alt-tab just to check.

Finder
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Agents are working
Updated 8:58 PM

5 agent sessions

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checkout-flow

Codex is working

Working

landing-page

Last Claude Code turn completed

Idle

api-gateway

Last Claude Code turn completed

Idle
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data-pipeline

Last Codex turn completed

Idle

design-system

Last Claude Code turn completed

Idle
Claude Code modeHooks
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Settings…
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At a glance

Every agent, one little light.

Green is working, amber is waiting on you, red has stopped. The whole status of your background agents lives quietly in your menu bar.

Agents are working
Updated 8:58 PM

5 agent sessions

>_

checkout-flow

Codex is working

Working

landing-page

Last Claude Code turn completed

Idle

api-gateway

Last Claude Code turn completed

Idle
>_

data-pipeline

Last Codex turn completed

Idle

design-system

Last Claude Code turn completed

Idle
Claude Code modeHooks
Getting Started…
Settings…
Quit Agent Light
Knows your tools

Finds Codex and Claude Code on its own.

No setup, no config files. Agent Light detects local sessions automatically — with an optional hooks mode for pixel-perfect Claude Code status.

Codex
Claude Code
~/.codex · ~/.claude · auto-detected
Private by design

Everything stays on your Mac.

Read-only, file-based liveness checks. No API calls, no accounts, no telemetry. Your code and prompts never leave the machine.

Local onlyRead-onlyNo API callsNo telemetry
Install

Up and running in one line.

$ brew tap eddykwang/tap
$ brew install --cask agent-light

or download the latest build from GitHub Releases. · Requires macOS 14 or later.

Stop alt-tabbing just to check.

Agent Light is free and open source. Built by Triliner.

Get it on GitHub