Know the moment an agent turns to you.

The Eye is a small macOS menu-bar app that keeps watch over the AI coding agents you run. It stays dark and quiet while they work, opens red with a count the instant one stops to ask you something, and rests again when all the work is done, so you never have to keep flipping back to a terminal to check.

Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, Cursor (CLI and in-editor), GitHub Copilot (CLI and in VS Code), and Google Antigravity (CLI and in-editor). One install brings them all under the same gaze, in the terminal or your editor, several at once.

When you run several agents in parallel, you stop babysitting their windows. The Eye gives you one place to glance: who's calling for aid, who's still working, and who's gone idle. Click a waiting session and the exact terminal or editor window comes forward. No hunting through tabs. You can also be told by a sound, a notification, a Telegram message to your phone, or by bringing the window forward on its own, and each of those is opt-in.

Yes, through Telegram. The Eye can send you a message the moment an agent starts waiting, so you're told even when you're away from the Mac. You connect your own Telegram bot once from Settings → Connectors, with step-by-step guidance built in; it takes about a minute. Your bot token is kept in the macOS Keychain, the message carries only the agent and project name (never your code), and nothing is sent until you turn it on.

It listens for the lifecycle hooks each agent already emits. A one-time install adds a tiny status hook to each agent's own config; as an agent starts, works, finishes, or stops to ask you, that hook writes a small local status file on your Mac. The Eye watches those files and reflects the combined state in the menu bar the instant anything changes.

It watches from the side and never runs, drives, or controls your agents. They keep running in their own apps exactly as before.

Your code, prompts, and output never leave your machine. The status files are plain local files that carry only what's needed to show state: a session name, its tool, and whether it's working or waiting. There's no account and no server of ours to send your work to.

The app is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper opens it with no warning, and every update verifies its signature before it installs. It sends nothing on its own except optional, anonymous usage counts (how many people use The Eye), which you can turn off under Settings → Privacy. If you switch on Telegram notifications, it also sends a short alert — the agent and project name only — to your own bot; that stays off until you set it up.

It's free. It runs on macOS 14 Sonoma or later and is a universal build, so it's native on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Download the app, drag it to Applications, and run one script to add the hooks. It takes about a minute.

Signed, notarized updates arrive quietly in the background, and you can also check on demand from About → Check for Updates. Each download is verified against both a cryptographic key and the app's Developer ID signature before it replaces the running app, so the watch never goes dark.

An uninstaller script removes only the hooks it added to each agent's config, cleanly leaving the rest of your settings untouched. After that, quit The Eye and drag it to the Trash.