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Live Agent Status, Built Into Your MacBook Notch.

A free, open-source app that shows live status (Working / Needs You / Done) for every AI agent session you're running, so you stop babysitting terminal tabs. Includes the exact build prompts used to vibecode it with Claude in about 20 minutes, plus the honest limits before you build your own.

  • The free NotchHUD repo, buildable in about 20 minutes with Command Line Tools only
  • The exact build prompts used to vibecode it with Claude, milestone by milestone
  • How the three-light system (blue/green/amber) and click-to-focus actually work
  • How the inline approval card drops permission questions into the notch with a red/green diff
  • The honest limits: a personal build, macOS only, not a polished commercial app

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A free, open-source MacBook-notch HUD for your AI agents, plus the exact build prompts. Built in response to OpenAI's $6.5B hardware push.

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What's Inside

The free NotchHUD repo, buildable in about 20 minutes with Command Line Tools only The exact build prompts used to vibecode it with Claude How the three-light system (blue/green/amber) and click-to-focus actually work How the inline approval card drops permission questions into t

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GET THE REPO

NotchHUD open source · Swift 6 / SwiftUI + AppKit · free A MacBook-notch HUD for your AI agent swarm: live status for every agentic CLI session, always-on peek, hover-expand glass panel, click-to-focus the exact terminal, and an inline approval card for permission prompts.

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THE THREE-LIGHT RULE

Every session you run gets one of three colors, updated live from a spool file NotchHUD watches on disk: Blue - Working.

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