Vigil: a quiet, real-time watch over your coding agents

The Island

Every agent, one glance.

Which agent is working, what it just said, and who's blocked, ranked by urgency beside your notch. Click a session and land in the exact terminal tab it runs in.

Attention alerts

It breaks through. Politely.

Screen-edge pulses reach you even in fullscreen apps, the moment an agent finishes or needs your answer.

orion needs your input

Plan limits

Every vendor's limits, one card.

Claude and Codex official meters, burn-rate forecasts, and a plain answer to the question that matters: “Limit ~3:42 PM.” More vendors appear as you sign in.

⠿Claude Max

Session (5h)On pace · ~46% left at reset

77% leftResets 1:50 AM · 3h

WeeklyLimit ~Sat 3:42 PM

58% leftResets Sun · 2d

⠿Codex Plus

Session (5h)On pace

99% leftResets 11:42 PM · 4h

Usage & cost

Honest numbers, per project.

Reference-tool accuracy: per project, per model, per hour. Estimated dollars wear a ≈, and nothing is silently guessed.

Top projects 30 days

orion≈$118

920 events · 8.4M tokOpus 4.8 · Sonnet 5

atlas≈$74

610 events · 5.2M tokSonnet 5

hyperion≈$41

340 events · 2.9M tokOpus 4.8

The Stats page

Know your patterns.

The Watchtower's full Stats page, one click away: an activity heatmap, daily spend, and per-project totals over 7, 30, or 90 days. Computed locally at API rates, with estimated dollars marked ≈.

Sound & delight

Peons, chimes, or silence.

Sound packs from the OpenPeon community, plus 110 achievements, because a full year on watch deserves a mythic badge.

Orb Pingby Seán Olszewski · fair-use

A calm ping language for agent events, using sounds from Tools for Humanity's Orb.

Orb DoneWork complete

Orb AskNeeds your input

Orb HelloSession start

🏆

Achievement unlockedOn a roll — 3 tasks done today

Setup

Running in under a minute.

Open

Drag Vigil to Applications. It lives in your menu bar: no window to babysit, no account, no config file.

Hook

Claude Code and Codex are auto-detected. One click installs the hooks; one click removes them again.

Walk away

Status pills go live on the next agent event. Vigil pings you the moment one finishes or needs an answer.

Private by architecture

Your code never leaves your Mac.

What Vigil reads

✓Event timestamps & types

✓Token counts & model names

✓Project paths & branches

✓Short status snippets, on-device

What never leaves your Mac

✕Your code & files

✕Full prompts & conversations

✕Anything, to any cloud

Token-authenticated server on localhost · no cloud relay, no telemetry, no accounts · one-click uninstall removes every hook, script, and file it created

Your agents work.
Vigil keeps watch.