MIAO - AgentPal
Animated VS Code status bar avatars for AI coding agents.
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MIAO - AgentPal adds animated status-bar avatars to VS Code for Claude Code, KiloCode, Codex, and OpenCode. Track coding progress without switching terminals. Project avatars: Aggregate sessions by project. Five states: Idle, working, waiting, success, error. Customization: Avatars, colors, names, and order. Session details: View status and connection diagnostics. Sound alerts: Notifications for waiting, completion, and errors. Flexible display: Current workspace or all projects.
PH · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding agent session managers · 514 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- Developer Tools
- Vibe coding
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Could you build this?
Yes A VS Code extension with a status bar item, animated avatar states, and settings is a well-documented extension API. A solo builder can ship it quickly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 146 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #101 of 147 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- Statusline · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Agent Emotes · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- OpenVibe · ph · 2026-11-10 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- PaneDrop · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- kywai · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Huddlekit · ph · 2026-10-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- blurt · github · 2026-09-25 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Thinking Orbs · ph · 2026-10-04 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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