Vibe Island
A native macOS utility that turns the MacBook notch (or a floating top bar on external displays) into a live control panel for AI coding agents running in your terminals and IDEs.
Typical Mac workflow
Install via direct download or brew install --cask vibe-island, launch once, and the app auto-configures local hooks for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and many other CLIs without cloud accounts or API keys. While you edit in VS Code or another app, colored session cards in the notch show whether each agent is idle, thinking, waiting for permission, or finished. When Claude Code requests a tool run, Allow and Deny buttons appear in the panel; AskUserQuestion prompts become clickable choices. Click a card to jump to the exact terminal tab, split pane, tmux session, or IDE integrated terminal where that agent runs.
Multi-agent and remote sessions
Vibe Island tracks unlimited parallel sessions across repos and tools in one view—useful when one tab runs Claude Code on a frontend fix while another runs Codex on a backend task. SSH Remote deploys hooks to remote servers so remote agent sessions appear beside local ones; version 1.0.39 improves reconnect after sleep and adds passphrase-protected key support. Usage meters for Claude, Codex, Kimi, and other providers can surface quota limits without opening each CLI separately.
Privacy and licensing
According to the developer, session metadata stays on your Mac with no telemetry cloud. A two-day full-feature trial precedes a one-time $19.99 license (1–3 Mac tiers) with free updates; core monitoring may remain in free mode after trial per terms. The app is native Swift—not Electron—with under 50 MB RAM and near-zero idle CPU on Apple Silicon Macs. macOS 14 or later is required.
Version 1.0.39
Released June 22, 2026, build 1.0.39 adds six agent integrations (Oh My Pi, ZCode, Trae, MiMoCode, Kimi Code, Mistral Vibe), Git branch indicators on session cards, optional model names, and a Glance completion mode that signals finished tasks with a green dot instead of auto-expanding the panel. Precise jump now covers VS Code’s native Claude extension and remote Codex App threads over SSH. Codex auto-approve detection, simplified approval settings, license recovery, and fixes for VS Code/Cursor completion cards round out the release.
