What you can do with Agent Hud Open

4 use cases

• Watch every agent's quota at the Mac notch

  Build the open-source HUD and see each agent's quota as a colour glow at the notch or a screen edge.

  • Agent Hud Open
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
  View prompt

  In the agent-hud-open repository, run `make check`, `make test` and `make run`, then report whether build/Agent HUD Open.app opened. Verify that at least one agent quota shows a colour glow, and state which quota it is.

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• Answer agent approvals and questions from the HUD

  Allow, deny or answer an agent's request from the HUD and jump back to its session in one click.

  • Agent Hud Open
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
  View prompt

  In the agent-hud-open repository, run `make run` and confirm the app is open. Trigger one approval request from Claude Code or Codex, then verify the request appears on the HUD with its command or diff and report what options it offers.

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• Audit token spend by agent, model and session

  Review 30 days of token history and estimated API cost per agent, model, session and turn.

  • Agent Hud Open
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
  View prompt

  In the agent-hud-open repository, run `make run`, then open the statistics window and report the token total for the last 24 hours for each agent shown. Verify that the cost figures marked ≈ are labelled as estimates.

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• Check agent quotas and sessions from iPhone on home Wi-Fi

  Share your Mac with the official iPhone app to see quotas and sessions without a server, on the same network.

  • Agent Hud Open
  • Software and DevOps
  • Intermediate
  View prompt

  Open the official Agent HUD Mac app, turn on Settings → Local network → Share this Mac, then pair an iPhone on the same network. Verify that the iPhone Home view shows the same quotas as the Mac and report any mismatch.

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How to use Agent Hud Open

1. Check you have what it needs: A Mac running macOS 14 or later; Xcode or the Xcode Command Line Tools with a Swift 6 toolchain; Git, to clone the repository.
2. Open jazzenchen/agent-hud-open on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run git clone https://github.com/jazzenchen/agent-hud-open.git and then cd agent-hud-open.
4. Run make check and make test to check the source and run the unit tests.
5. Run make run to build and open build/Agent HUD Open.app, signed ad-hoc for local use.
6. Hover over the glow to read each quota's share used and reset countdown.

These steps come from our top use case, Watch every agent's quota at the Mac notch, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forDevelopers and power users on a Mac who run several coding agents and want to track quotas, approvals and token spend without switching windows.
• Why it is hot
• LanguageSwift
• Sourcegithub.com/jazzenchen/agent-hud-open · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• A Mac running macOS 14 or later
• Xcode or the Xcode Command Line Tools with a Swift 6 toolchain
• Git, to clone the repository
• At least one supported agent installed and signed in, such as Claude Code or Codex

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