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AI · July 8, 2026

Agent Signals

A menu bar traffic light for your AI coding agents

Agent Signals launched on July 8, 2026 with 3 votes, #8,766 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

Agent Signals is a tiny macOS menu bar app for developers who run Claude Code and Codex in iTerm. It turns silent agent state changes into traffic-light counters (waiting, working, done) and focuses the right tab in one click. Free, open source, notarized.

🚦 macOS menu bar traffic light for AI coding agents — see when Claude Code or Codex is working, done, or waiting for you - schmel007/AgentTrafficLight

If you, like me, work with Claude Code and Codex agents in iTerm, you'll find this app useful. I built Agent Signals because terminal notifications are easy to miss while I am deep in work (on calls, in meetings, etc.). When an AI coding agent waits for input, approval, or a quick review, almost every missed prompt becomes idle time. Agent Signals keeps a small traffic light in the macOS menu bar, so I can always see which agent is working, which one has finished, and which one needs my attention. Agent Signals is a small macOS menu bar app for people who run AI coding agents in iTerm. It turns silent agent state changes into a compact traffic-light indicator and lets you focus the relevant…from github.com

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