CrewTower

In plain words

CrewTower is a macOS menu bar app that monitors multiple AI coding agents running simultaneously and displays permission requests directly in the MacBook notch. It lets developers approve or deny agent commands—file edits, terminal operations, and questions—with one click while showing real-time status, progress, and context usage for each session. Users can jump directly to the relevant terminal window when an agent needs attention, keeping all agent activity visible without leaving their current workflow.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Crew Tower lives in your MacBook notch and watches every AI coding agent you run: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Qwen, OpenCode and more. When an agent needs permission, the request shows up in the notch with full context: the exact command, the file edit, the question. Approve or deny in one click, without touching the terminal. See every session at once, working, waiting or done. Jump straight to the right terminal window when one needs you. Nothing stalls silently.

Keep Claude Code, Codex and your other AI agents in view. Check progress and answer requests from your Mac’s notch, in desktop apps and terminals. $9.99 once.

In CrewTower, Jump takes you to this session’s real window, tab, or pane. CrewTower is a Mac app that keeps Claude Code, Codex and your other AI coding agents in your notch. Follow progress and answer requests across desktop apps and terminals. A task in Claude. Another in Codex. Something still running in your terminal. CrewTower brings their progress and requests together, so keeping up doesn’t become another task. See that work is moving along without opening the app to check. Respond without switching apps. Approve or deny supported requests from the notch, one by one or with Allow all when several wait on one card. Your answer goes straight back to the session, while your current…from crewtower.app

• 
  NotchcodeJun 2026 · github.com · ▲89

  Claude Code + Codex agents in your notch

• 
  AgentNotchJan 2026 · github.com · ▲120

  Real-time AI coding assistant telemetry in your Mac's notch

• 
  AgentPeekJun 2026 · agentpeek.app · ▲164

  Your coding agents, in the Mac notch

• 
  Agent BarFeb 2026 · aayushbuilds.gumroad.com · ▲162

  Run Claude Code from your menu bar

• 
  CrewAug 2026 · crew-deskmates.vercel.app · ▲137

  A tiny crew of monsters for your Claude Code agents

• 
  flockApr 2026 · baahaus.github.io · ▲79

  Run a flock of Claude Code (or other agents) in one window.

• 
  /dev/null▲468

  a social network for devs

  Dev tools · 2d ago · dev-null.sh

• 
  Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design▲423

  open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

• 
  Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things▲411

  Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 25d ago · github.com

• 
  OpenBot▲362

  Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

  Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

• 
  Talanoa▲340

  Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

  Dev tools · 20d ago · talanoa.email

• 
  CoreSpeed▲332

  One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools

  Dev tools · 27d ago · corespeed.io

• TL
  The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude▲710

  Life & fun · Aug 2026 · louisabraham.github.io

• 
  Hey Noah▲656

  A proactive AI executive assistant for founders

  AI · Aug 2026 · heynoah.io

• 
  Clipto MCP▲655

  Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can send all the media to process in the cloud, but it’s slow, expensive and raises privacy concerns. So we decided to build our own on-device media search engine. How it works (high level): 1. We ingest video, audio, image; normalize formats via ffmpeg; run content analysis to…

  Work · Aug 2026 · clipto.com

• 
  Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones▲627

  Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for…

  Life & fun · Aug 2026 · toneyalexander.github.io

• 
  AdAnt AI▲620

  Claude for viral, high-converting social ads

  AI · Aug 2026 · adant.ai

• 
  Astute▲606

  Automate your B2B brand going viral, with new media creators

  AI · Aug 2026 · company-app.joinastute.com