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AgentMicro

Live Codex task status in your macOS menu bar

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AgentMicro is a local-first macOS menu-bar companion for supervising parallel Codex Desktop and CLI tasks. It surfaces task state, project, elapsed time, and results at a glance, then opens the matching Codex Desktop task with one click. It observes local metadata only and never uploads prompts, responses, source code, or task history.

PH · launched Aug 1, 2026 · 160 upvotes (top 92%) · 0 views

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Yes AgentMicro is a straightforward macOS menu bar app (using Swift/SwiftUI) that monitors local files or processes for Codex tasks and displays state.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 447 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #440 of 448 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 221 days after the earliest competitor.

  • codex-remote · github · 2026-09-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Codex Subagents · ph · 2026-03-17 · 306 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Codex Remote · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • kiro-cli-dev.github.io · github · 2026-09-21 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • TaskChef · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Codex 2.0 by OpenAI · ph · 2026-04-17 · 341 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • AgentReins · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Codex Micro · ph · 2026-07-16 · 265 upvotes · similarity 0.47

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