A native macOS floating panel that shows all your Claude Code sessions grouped by project: what each one is working on, a yellow pulse when one is waiting for your permission, and PR status when idle. Swift/AppKit, zero dependencies, never steals focus. MIT.

Hi Product Hunt! Maker here. I built ccglance to scratch my own itch. When you run several Claude Code sessions in parallel, the failure mode is silent: a session hits a permission prompt and just sits there while you're looking at another window. I kept alt-tabbing through terminals only to find a session that had been waiting on a "can I run this command?" prompt for ten minutes. ccglance is a small always-on-top floating panel for macOS that shows every running session grouped by project: - What each session is working on, with elapsed time - A yellow pulse the moment one is waiting for your permission - Subagents indented under their parent session - For idle sessions, the CI/review status of the branch's pull request - Clicking the panel never steals focus from the app you're working in, so it's safe to park in a corner of a second display How it works is deliberately boring: Claude Code has lifecycle hooks (SessionStart, PreToolUse, Stop, ...). A dependency-free Node script receives those events on stdin and writes one JSON file per session to ~/.claude/ccglance/sessions/. The app polls that directory every 0.5 seconds and renders. No server, no IPC — if either side dies, the other doesn't care, and you can debug the whole pipeline with cat. Some choices I'm happy with: - Native Swift/AppKit, no Electron. It's an always-running utility, so CPU and memory footprint mattered. There isn't even an Xcode project — the build is a shell script calling swiftc directly, with zero external packages on both the Swift and Node sides. - The panel is a non-activating NSPanel. You can click it all day and your editor keeps focus. - Releases are Developer ID signed and notarized, so Gatekeeper runs it without warnings. Install with "brew install --cask hatoya/tap/ccglance" or grab the zip from GitHub. One more thing worth mentioning: ccglance itself was built almost entirely with Claude Code — the Swift app, the hook scripts, the README, even the demo GIF. Dogfooding all the way down: I watched ccglance sessions build ccglance in ccglance. It's free, MIT licensed, macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon prebuilt; Intel builds from source). I'd love feedback — especially from people running bigger parallel-session setups than mine, and on what states you'd want surfaced next.

A quick win would be a global keyboard shortcut to jump straight from the panel into the specific Claude Code session that needs your attention, so you don't have to hunt through the list manually when something is waiting on permission approval.

@reyhandedemli Love this idea — the panel intentionally never steals focus, so an explicit "jump to the session that needs me" hotkey is the perfect complement. Adding it to the roadmap, thanks! 🦀

Been looking for something like this for ages, the yellow pulse for waiting permissions is genuinely useful and it actually does not steal focus, which is rare for these kinds of overlays.

the yellow pulse for permission requests is such a thoughtful touch, hard to miss without being annoying. love that it stays out of the way until you actually need it.

Been looking for something like this for ages, the yellow pulse for waiting permissions is genuinely useful and it actually does not steal focus, which is rare for these kinds of overlays.

the yellow pulse for permission requests is such a thoughtful touch, hard to miss without being annoying. love that it stays out of the way until you actually need it.

ccglance

Never miss a Claude Code session waiting on permission

Never miss a Claude Code session waiting on permission