Changelog

Every turn of the Eye.

Choose your platform to see its release history. Both versions check for updates in the background from 1.2.0 on Windows; earlier Windows copies update by running the newer installer.

System tray app

Windows

Windows 10 and 11 · 64-bit beta

1.2.1 for Windows

Latest for Windows · Beta August 10, 2026

Your own alert sounds. Preferences → Alerts now has an Add Sound… button: pick a WAV and it becomes the sound The Eye calls you back with. The bundled horns are still there. WAV only on Windows — it is the one container the system player handles.
Kept where updates can't touch them. Added sounds are copied into %USERPROFILE%\.theeye\sounds, so they survive every update, and dropping files into that folder yourself works just as well as the button. Open Folder takes you there, and a sound whose file goes missing falls back to the default horn instead of playing nothing.
Reveal and Dismiss on the floating window. Every session row now carries the same two buttons the popover has: open the project folder in Explorer, or clear the session from the list. They appear when you hover the row, and clicking either one no longer jumps you to the session. Clicking the row itself still brings the agent's window forward, and rows now answer to Enter and Space when you tab to them.

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1.2.0 for Windows

Beta August 6, 2026

The Eye tells you when a new version is out. It checks shortly after launch and once a day, then says so once — a notification, an Update to … item in the tray menu, and the release notes under Preferences → General → Updates. Nothing downloads or installs until you click Install, and the automatic check can be switched off in the same place. Updating from 1.1.0 or earlier still means running this installer by hand — once.

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1.1.0 for Windows

Beta August 6, 2026

Agents actually report in after setup. Installing hooks now points them at a copy of the writer kept in your user folder instead of inside the app's install directory, whose path contains a space that some agents dropped when they ran the hook. Sessions appear as soon as you restart a running agent.
Hook install follows your choices. The button under Preferences → Tools is now Install enabled and registers hooks for exactly the agents you switched on. It no longer quietly installs the full default set, so turning Codex off keeps Codex hooks off your machine.
Alert sounds play. Sound goes through Windows directly rather than a background PowerShell command, which stayed silent on machines with locked-down PowerShell and flashed a console window when testing.
Quit quits. The Quit item in the tray menu, the popover, and the floating window now close the app instead of doing nothing.
Windows open in front. Preferences, About, and the feedback form came up behind whatever you were working in, flashing in the taskbar until you clicked them. They now take the foreground on the first try, and clicking a session row raises its editor or terminal more reliably.
No more console flashes. Installing hooks from Preferences runs silently.

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1.0.3 for Windows

Beta August 3, 2026

Focus without resizing. Clicking a session brings its host window to the foreground while preserving a normal or maximized window's current size and placement. Only a minimized window is restored.

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1.0.2 for Windows

Beta August 3, 2026

Session clicks return to the work. Clicking a session now activates its VS Code, Cursor, Windows Terminal, or other captured host window instead of opening the project folder in Explorer.
Better Windows host detection. The hook records the parent editor process after finding the agent, and the tray can locate application windows even when Windows ConPTY does not provide a console window handle.
Folder reveal stays explicit. Explorer opens only from the dedicated folder button; clicking a row or its focus button never falls back to a folder.

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1.0.1 for Windows

Beta August 3, 2026

A true floating watch window. Enable it independently from the tray popover, drag it anywhere by its header, and expand it into the same live session list and status phrases shown in the tray.
State colours now match the watch. Working burns amber, waiting burns red, and idle settles into the forged-iron background in both the floating header and Windows notification-area icon.
Codex sessions appear reliably. The Windows app reads live root Codex VS Code rollouts when the current Codex host does not invoke its configured lifecycle hooks, while ignoring internal helper threads.
Feedback, About, and polish. Send feedback without leaving the app, open the new About panel, and use its fully visible Done button. The floating footer also provides Preferences and Quit.
Still a beta. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen warns once on first run. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Updates are installed by running the newer installer.

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1.0.0 for Windows

Beta August 2, 2026

The Eye comes to Windows. A system tray app for Windows 10 and 11: the same watch light, the same agents, the same local status files. It opens red with a count when an agent needs you, green while they work, and rests when all is quiet.
One-button hook setup, as on the Mac. Preferences → Hooks registers The Eye with Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and VS Code. The writer ships inside the app, so there is nothing to install alongside it and no jq to find.
Familiar face. Real app icons for the agents installed on your machine, the same forged-iron panel, and the burning brand title.
What is not here yet. The build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen warns once on first run — choose More info, then Run anyway. It does not update itself yet, and the floating chip and in-app feedback form remain macOS-only. Anonymous usage counts can be turned off under Preferences → Privacy.

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Menu bar app

macOS

macOS 13 or later · Signed and notarized

1.4.0

Latest for macOS August 10, 2026

Your own alert sounds. Settings → Alerts now has an Add Sound button: pick a WAV or AIFF and it becomes the sound The Eye calls you back with. The bundled horns and the macOS system alerts are still there.
Kept where updates can't touch them. Added sounds are copied into ~/.theeye/sounds, so they survive every update, and dropping files into that folder yourself works just as well as the button.
It never goes quiet on you. Move or delete the original file and the alert falls back to the default horn rather than silently playing nothing.

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1.3.0

July 23, 2026

The Eye installs its own hooks. Open Settings → Tools and every agent has a row: whether The Eye is watching it, and a button to start or stop. One button sets up every agent found on your Mac. No script to run, no terminal.
It tells you what it needs. The hooks rely on jq, which ships with macOS 15 and later. If it is missing, Settings says so plainly instead of leaving the Eye closed with no explanation.
Your own hooks are left alone. The Eye adds only its own entries, keeps a backup of every file it edits, and removes only what it added. A config it cannot read is reported, never overwritten.
Removing it is just as easy. Remove one agent or all of them from the same pane, and the watcher script goes with them.

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1.2.0

June 30, 2026

Telegram notifications. Be told the moment an agent starts waiting, even away from your desk. Connect a bot in about a minute from Settings, with guidance built in; your token stays in the macOS Keychain, and nothing is sent until you turn it on.
Settings, reorganized. A new sidebar groups everything by purpose, General, Alerts, Connectors, Window, and Tools, so each setting is easy to find.
Fixed a crash when opening Settings. Preferences now opens reliably.

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1.1.0

June 29, 2026

Google Antigravity support. The Eye now watches Google Antigravity sessions (CLI and in-editor), alongside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot.
Feedback & feature requests, built in. Send a note or request a feature straight from the menu, no email needed.
Hide or show the floating window. Toggle it from the menu or with a global hotkey, to keep it out of the way while you work on the laptop.
Dismiss a session. Remove any row from the watch; it returns on its own the next time that agent changes state.

1.0.1

June 26, 2026

The first watch. A menu-bar light that opens red the moment an AI coding agent needs you, watches while they work, and rests when all is quiet.
Watches every agent. Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, in the terminal or your editor.
Go straight to it. Click a waiting session and its exact terminal or editor window comes forward.
Told the way you want. Opt-in alerts: a sound, a notification, or bring the window forward on its own.
Signed, notarized, and self-updating. Stays current quietly from here on.