Free macOS App
One Eye That Watches All Your AI Coding Agents
The Eye is a macOS menu bar watch light for the coding agents you run in parallel. It opens red the instant one stops to ask for input, watches while everyone works, and closes when the work is done. You stop babysitting windows; the system tells you when it needs you.
Free • macOS 14 Sonoma or later • Signed and notarized by Apple
Watches 5 Agent Families
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Antigravity
Nothing Leaves Your Mac
Local status files, no account, no server
Free and Notarized
Apple Developer ID signed, auto-updates
Why Does The Eye Exist?
I run three or four coding agents in parallel, sometimes more, and I quickly became their babysitter: constantly jumping between windows just to check who finished, who is stuck, and who is waiting for approval. Running agents in parallel is where the productivity is, but only if you solve the attention problem. A human polling windows is the worst scheduler there is.
I tried existing tools and none fit: they all wrap the entire workflow and force you to work inside them. I wanted to stay in my terminal and my editor. So I built a watcher instead of a wrapper. And as a Tolkien fan, "One Ring to Rule Them All" jumped straight at me, so the whole thing wears a Lord of the Rings theme: one eye to watch them all.
How Does It Work?
It watches from the side and never runs, drives, or controls your agents
1. Install the Hooks
One script adds a small status hook to each agent's own config. An uninstaller removes only what it added, cleanly.
2. Agents Report In
As an agent starts, works, finishes, or stops to ask you something, the hook writes a tiny local status file on your Mac.
3. The Eye Reflects It
The menu bar eye opens red with a count when agents need you, watches while they work, and closes when all is quiet.
Click a waiting session and the exact terminal or editor window comes forward, no hunting through tabs. Prefer to be told? Pick a sound, a macOS notification, a Telegram message to your phone, or let it bring the window forward on its own. Every alert is opt-in.
Which Agents Does It Watch?
One install brings them all under the same gaze, in the terminal or your editor
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex CLI
Cursor, CLI and in-editor
GitHub Copilot CLI
Copilot in VS Code
Google Antigravity
The Story Behind It
The Eye is my first Mac app, built in a weekend instead of playing Ghost of Tsushima, and another proof of the same point behind all my side projects: building the exact tool you need is now a short, realistic project, not a fantasy. The observability principle it applies, the system tells you when it needs you, never the other way around, is the same one I bake into client agent systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is The Eye?
A free macOS menu bar app that keeps watch over the AI coding agents you run. It opens red with a count the instant an agent stops to ask you something, watches while everyone works, and closes when all the work is done, so you never have to keep flipping between terminals to check.
Which AI coding agents does The Eye support?
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, Cursor (CLI and in-editor), GitHub Copilot (CLI and in VS Code), and Google Antigravity. One install brings them all under the same watch, in the terminal or your editor, several at once.
Does my code leave my Mac?
No. The Eye listens to lifecycle hooks the agents already emit and writes small local status files that carry only a session name, its tool, and whether it is working or waiting. Your code, prompts, and output never leave your machine. There is no account and no server.
Does The Eye run or control my agents?
No, and that is its core design decision. It watches from the side: your agents keep running in their own tools exactly as before, and The Eye never wraps, drives, or restarts them. Existing tools wanted to own the whole workflow; The Eye lets you stay in your terminal and editor.
What does The Eye cost and what do I need to run it?
It is free. It requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later, runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel, and is signed and notarized by Apple. Download it at theeye.dev, drag it to Applications, and run one script to add the hooks. It takes about a minute.
Can The Eye notify me on my phone?
Yes, through Telegram. Connect your own Telegram bot once from Settings and The Eye messages you the moment an agent starts waiting. The message carries only the agent and project name, never your code, and the feature stays off until you turn it on.
Stop Babysitting Your Agents
Download The Eye, run one script, and let the menu bar tell you the moment an agent needs you.
Download at theeye.devFree • macOS 14 Sonoma or later • Apple Silicon and Intel