Notchcode
Claude Code + Codex agents in your notch
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Bill Xu

Notchcode - Claude Code + Codex agents in your notch

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Notchcode turns your MacBook notch (and a top-center pill on Windows) into an ambient monitor for your AI coding agents. Run multiple Claude Code and Codex sessions at once and stop losing track of them. The notch glows when an agent needs your input, and one tap focuses the right terminal. Notchcode also monitors weekly agent usage. Everything runs locally: no telemetry, no network calls beyond loopback. Free and open source (MIT). Mac + Windows.

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Bill Xu
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Hey PH 👋 I kept starting Claude Code tasks, tabbing away, and forgetting they were running... then finding them stuck on a permission prompt 20 minutes later. Async agents and an easily-distracted brain don't mix. So I built Notchcode. It keeps every agent session in the one place my eyes always land: the notch. Works with Claude Code and Codex, runs fully local, and there's a Windows build too. It's free and open source. I'd love your feedback, especially on what else would be useful to surface in the notch.
Luca Capone

The glow-when-it-needs-input is the part I'd actually use. I run Claude Code as my main tool and the real time sink isn't the run, it's me tabbing away, then coming back 20 minutes later to find it stalled on a yes/no question. When you've got three sessions going at once, does the notch tell them apart, or just signal that something somewhere needs you?

Bill Xu
Maker

@luca_capone It signals that somewhere needs you unexpanded, and shows you each session's individual status when expanded

Sarvesh Chidambaram

Ambient agent monitoring feels surprisingly useful now that people run multiple coding sessions at once. The “needs input” glow is the bit I’d probably rely on most. Are you planning per-agent labels or priority states?

Bill Xu
Maker

@sarveshsea Yes it has per-agent labels but there currently isn’t a priority hierarchy built-in