Vibe Island — notch dashboard for AI coding agents
A native macOS utility that parks a live status panel in the notch area so you can see every running AI coding session without cycling through terminal tabs.
If you run more than one CLI agent—Claude Code in iTerm2, Codex in Ghostty, Cursor Agent in the IDE terminal—each session can stall, finish, or ask for permission while you are focused elsewhere. Vibe Island watches those tools locally and surfaces working, waiting, and done states in one overlay that stays visible across Spaces and full-screen editors. The panel is designed to be non-activating: it informs you without stealing focus from the app you are editing in.
Setup and day-to-day workflow
On first launch the app auto-configures hooks for supported agents, so you are not hand-editing shell profiles for each CLI. Sessions appear as cards with color-coded status; when Claude Code, OpenCode, or MiMoCode requests a tool permission or AskUserQuestion prompt, the notch expands with Allow, Deny, or one-click answers. For other agents you still get live monitoring and 8-bit sound cues per event, then a precise jump to the exact terminal window, tab, split pane, or tmux session across 20+ terminals including iTerm2, Warp, WezTerm, Ghostty, and VS Code or Cursor integrated terminals.
Plan review renders Markdown in the panel when an agent proposes a multi-step plan, which helps you approve or redirect work before it runs. Usage tracking for providers such as Claude, Codex, and Kimi sits beside session status so you can route tasks to agents that still have headroom. SSH Remote monitoring lets a Mac on your desk watch agents running on a remote machine without sending session data through a cloud relay.
Privacy, hardware, and licensing
The vendor states that processing stays on your Mac: no cloud dashboard and no telemetry pipeline between your terminals and the overlay. The app is built in Swift, targets macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Intel and Apple Silicon, and is sized to use under 50 MB of RAM according to the product site. Distribution is direct download or Homebrew (brew install --cask vibe-island), not the Mac App Store. Licensing is a one-time purchase starting at $19.99 for one Mac (two- and three-Mac tiers exist), with a two-day free trial before activation.
Version 1.0.41
Release 1.0.41 (July 13, 2026) extends agent coverage and polish: Grok Build CLI support, Orca integration inside Stably’s agent IDE, herdr pane jumping, Quiet scenes for Focus and screen sharing, in-app device management, and reliability fixes for SSH, Cursor subagents, and session persistence after restart. It is a practical update if you already depend on the notch workflow or plan to run several agents in parallel on Sonoma or newer.
