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.
5 agent sessions
checkout-flow
Codex is working
landing-page
Last Claude Code turn completed
api-gateway
Last Claude Code turn completed
data-pipeline
Last Codex turn completed
design-system
Last Claude Code turn completed
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.
5 agent sessions
checkout-flow
Codex is working
landing-page
Last Claude Code turn completed
api-gateway
Last Claude Code turn completed
data-pipeline
Last Codex turn completed
design-system
Last Claude Code turn completed
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.
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.
Up and running in one line.
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