Holdor – Stop your Agents from sleeping
Your Mac stays awake. Sleep is for humans, not agents.
Holdor – Stop your Agents from sleeping launched on March 22, 2026 with 23 votes, #838 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Holdor is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that prevents sleep while Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and other AI coding agents are running. Lock your screen, walk away, agents keep working.
Lock your screen. Walk away. Holdor prevents macOS from sleeping while your AI agents are running. Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, terminals — all protected. Your company requires locking the screen when you step away. Non-negotiable. Lock triggers idle sleep. Your long-running AI agents get killed mid-task. Carry your laptop everywhere? That's not a solution. That's a problem. Door icon appears in the menu bar. No dock icon, no windows, no clutter. Toggle which apps to protect. Holdor auto-detects running processes. Default. Prevents idle sleep so your Mac stays awake when you walk away. Also prevents system sleep on lid close. Great for plugged-in setups. Manual sleep (Apple menu…from holdor.yetanother.one
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