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AgentMicro
Live Codex task status in your macOS menu bar
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Live Codex task status in your macOS menu bar
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AgentMicro is a local-first macOS menu-bar companion for supervising parallel Codex Desktop and CLI tasks. It surfaces task state, project, elapsed time, and results at a glance, then opens the matching Codex Desktop task with one click. It observes local metadata only and never uploads prompts, responses, source code, or task history.
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You asked which signals help without adding noise, so here's the one I'd add: the state that isn't in your list.
You have thinking, unread result, input needed, error, idle. There's nothing for I don't know. White for idle and white for the metadata went stale or Codex isn't where I expected are the same pixel to me, and they mean opposite things. Idle is fine. Lost is not. If the menu bar can't separate those, then a quiet menu bar tells me nothing, and quiet is the state it's in almost all the time.
Second one, on blue. Elapsed time is a weak proxy for stuck. A long legitimate task and a hung one look identical behind a spinner, and what separates them isn't duration, it's whether anything has changed recently. Blue that decays into thinking, but nothing has moved for six minutes would tell me more than a timer, and it costs you no extra permission since you're already watching that metadata change.
The five states are well chosen otherwise, and orange being the only one that means act now is exactly right. Noise usually comes from having two colours that both mean maybe.
In base mode with no Accessibility permission, orange for input needed has to be inferred from session metadata, and a long tool call looks identical to a prompt sitting unanswered. If that's a timeout threshold I'd want the number documented, because a 90 second web fetch showing up as needing me is the false positive that gets the whole menu bar ignored by Thursday. Five states only pay off if orange is never wrong.