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AI · October 7, 2026

offstage

Your computer-use agent gets a Mac account, not your screen

offstage launched on October 7, 2026 with 77 votes, #198 of 2,508 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

offstage gives Claude Code, Codex and opencode a second, logged-in macOS account to do GUI work in. Simulators, Xcode UI tests and the app your agent just built open on that account

offstage gives your coding agent a second macOS account, logged in behind yours. Simulators, Xcode UI tests and the app it just built open on that account's desktop. Your windows, keyboard and mouse stay yours. Free and MIT licensed. For Macs on Apple Silicon with Node 20 or newer. The helper account takes one setup command . Both captures are real, taken on one Mac on 2026-09-22. The console user was watching a video in a browser the whole time. The moving cursor above illustrates the agent's loop: screenshot, decide, click, screenshot. Agents also run tests and browsers. offstage reads each command before it runs and sends it to the cheapest place that keeps it off your display. Send it…from offstage.viraat.dev

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