Ajar

What it does

Ajar makes your Mac respond to what you're doing, not what you remember to press. Lid Angle Sync maps your MacBook's lid angle to screen brightness, keyboard backlight, and system volume. Multiple displays are supported, with per-display offsets. Awake keeps the Mac awake when you're actually working. Built-in rules detect Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI sessions. Add your own for apps, Wi-Fi, disks, power, or a closed-lid clamshell.

Ajar

Brightness that follows your lid. Awake that follows your work. One curve maps the lid from closed to fully open. Drag a single point to shape it. Display brightness rides the curve by default. Turn on keyboard backlight and system volume to follow along. The lid sets the fraction. Your preference sets the ceiling. Touch brightness, keyboard, or volume manually and Ajar reads it as your preference at that angle, then keeps following the lid from there. macOS sleeps about five minutes after the keyboard goes quiet. AI agents in the terminal think between keystrokes, run tools, write files, then come back. The system reads all of that as idle. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI : Ajar…from parcse.com

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