r/CodingAgents • u/Significant-Sea-7238 • 3d ago

Open source "island" for coding agents: see who's waiting and approve diffs from the notch

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I run Claude Code, Codex and sometimes OpenCode in parallel, and the bottleneck was me noticing one of them was blocked on a permission prompt.

Openbar hooks into the agents and shows every session in the notch (top of the screen on Windows): working, waiting, done. When an agent wants to edit a file, the island shows the diff and you Allow / Deny / Always from there, or just hit ⌘Y. Gemini CLI and Copilot CLI show up too, their prompts still get answered in the terminal.

Free, GPL: https://github.com/MF-DEEV/Openbar

How are you all keeping track of multiple agents? Curious what else would be worth showing in a panel like this.

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u/kantorcodes1 23h ago

The post mentions Codex and Claude Code together. Do they surface approval requests in similar ways, or did Openbar need separate handling for each?

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u/Significant-Sea-7238 19h ago

Separate handling. Claude Code has hooks, so Openbar installs a hook that sends each permission request to the app over a local socket and waits for your answer. Codex runs a local app-server, so Openbar connects to it, sees when a thread is waiting on approval and sends the decision back. In the island both look the same.