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Track Codex and Claude Code and respond from your Notch
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Chimlo - Track Codex and Claude Code and respond from your Notch

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Chimlo is a free, open-source macOS app that puts Codex and Claude Code in your MacBook notch. See which agents are working, waiting, finished, or failed. Answer Claude Code questions, review permission requests, and check provider usage without hunting through terminal windows. Chimlo also handles media, volume, and brightness controls, with animated pixel companions that make every state easy to spot.

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Hi Product Hunt, I built Chimlo to remove one annoying part of working with coding agents: checking several terminal windows to see what is running, finished, or waiting for you. Chimlo moves that loop into the MacBook notch. You can follow Codex and Claude Code sessions, answer Claude’s questions, review permission requests, check provider usage, and reopen completed work. It is a native macOS app, free and open source, with no telemetry by default. This is the first public release, so I’d love feedback from people who already use coding agents every day.
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What did GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna unlock that made your launch possible?
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Sol handled the hard parts: native AppKit window behavior, agent lifecycle edge cases, approval safety, and release packaging. Terra carried most of the daily implementation and UI iteration. Luna handled fast repository searches, small fixes, and repeated QA checks. Together, they let me spend deeper reasoning where it mattered while keeping the rest of the build moving.
Answering permission requests straight from the notch is the feature I'd actually use daily. That's the one part of running Claude Code or Codex that always pulls me out of flow, since I have to alt tab back to a terminal just to approve something small. Does Chimlo show enough context in that notch view to make an informed call, or is it more of a quick approve or deny without seeing what the agent is asking to do. So how does it tracks multiple sessions at once. If I've got Codex running on one project and Claude Code on another at the same time, does the notch cleanly separate them, or does it start to feel cluttered once you're juggling three or four agents