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Why the Nook
One glance. Everything your agents are doing.
Approvals
Unblock agents, anywhere
Permission prompts pin as cards above your sessions — Allow, Allow for session, or Deny. Away from the desk, answer from your iPhone or Apple Watch (beta).
the-nook · bridgeapprovalRun Edit
server/routes.ts
Plus a mixer, capture, timers, weather, and a dozen more modules — see them all ↓
In action
Built for the way you actually run agents
The island
Your whole fleet, in one pixel strip
Every session, every agent, one square each. The pill never wraps, never grows — an arriving question flashes the fire and swaps the slot, then hands the notch back.
- 13 agents: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Muse, and more
- Custom agents: your own coding agent can wire itself in from the published contract
- Slot rankings — you choose which data earns the notch
- You don't need a notch — external displays get the same island, floating top-center
Fleet running calmly
Approvals
Answer from the island — or your phone
A gated tool call surfaces the island: the fire turns to a question, the card pins above your sessions, and the row says what it's waiting on. Allow, Allow for session, Deny, or deny with a reason, and the run picks up where it stopped.
- Approval cards pin above the session list; questions answer inside their row
- Allow for session waves through the rest of that session's requests
- Answer from iPhone or Apple Watch too, now in TestFlight beta
- Works across every hooked agent, local or remote
the-nook · harden the bridgeapprovalRun Bash
swift test --filter Bridge
the-nook · main
User: harden the bridge
Running swift test --filter Bridge…
site · nook-334
User: match the mocks to the app
Reading ModuleMocks.tsx…
Terminals
Reply without hunting for the tab
Every session knows the terminal it runs in. Type a reply in the island and it lands in that exact pane; click Jump and the right window comes forward.
- Replies reach agents in tmux, iTerm2, Terminal, and kitty
- Jump focuses the exact window, even for sessions over SSH
- Per-turn replies render as Markdown, with tables and code
Done. Want me to update the tests too?
⏺ Updated 3 files
> yes — and run them
⏺ Bash(swift test)
Remote
Any SSH box, one click away
Pick a host from your ssh config or your tailnet and click once — the nook-hook installs itself and its agents appear beside your local ones, indistinguishable.
- One click: connect, push the hook, configure agents, check it can reach this Mac
- Hosts mirror this Mac's installed integrations automatically
- Remote sessions are ordinary rows; the agent chip names the machine
gpu-rig
tailnet peer
trainer · fp16
User: benchmark fp16
Running python bench.py…
The campfire
A hearth that tells the truth
Stop-motion pixel art, four frames a step. It dances when tokens stream, putters blue when an agent asks, and goes to dead embers the moment something breaks.
- Idle, running, ready, question, and error — at a glance
- Hand-drawn 14×14 sprites, no tweening
- Six chiptunes you can assign to any agent event
fleet running
pending question
ready to review
all quiet
something failed
Cooling
Fans that answer to you, not the scheduler
Live RPM for every fan, and the curve is yours. Apple's stock curve waits until you're already cooking — swap to Aggressive and it climbs earlier and harder, or slam MAX before the compile.
- Stock, Aggressive, and MAX — swap curves in one click
- MAX and COOL sessions surface right in the pill
- CPU/GPU die temps tier-color before things get loud
- All local: your hardware data never leaves the device
Power
Wall power, on your terms
Live watts from the adapter to the battery to the chassis — and a charge ceiling you set yourself. On recent macOS The Nook drives the system's own limiter; below that it enforces the limit itself. One slider, 50–100%, any version.
- One slider, 50–100%, on any macOS version
- Hooks the system limiter where it exists, enforces elsewhere
- Top-up mode charges past, then re-arms on unplug
- Thermal protection pauses charging when the pack runs hot
- Energy flow figure: adapter → battery → system, live watts
Top-up mode
charge past the limit while plugged in
Sound
Every app gets its own fader
A real volume mixer: set each app's level, mute the noisy one, and send any app to its own output — music to headphones while the meeting stays on the speakers.
- Per-app volume, mute, and output routing
- Master output, system sounds, and microphone pickers in one panel
- Catches players that aren't apps, like command-line podcast tools
every app on its own fader
Capture
Screenshots and recordings from the notch
Drag out an area, pick a screen, or choose one app. While a recording runs, Wings unfold beside the island: pause and stop on the right, system audio and microphone on the left.
- Area, screen, or single-app capture
- Screenshots save to your screenshot folder and copy to the clipboard
- System audio and microphone tracks for recordings
- The Nook's own windows never show up in a capture
Screenshot
Record
Your day
Meetings come to the notch
Today sits in a dial — days behind, days ahead, dots where things happen. The slot counts your next call down, and when it gets close the island opens the day on its own.
- Next meeting counts down right in the slot
- Near a call, the island opens the day itself
- Meeting links get an Open button in the row
- Real calendars and reminders — no sync service
09:30–09:45
Standup
Daily
15:30–16:00
Design review
4th floor
Camera
A lens that stays asleep
A live camera preview in the island for the seconds before a call. It never wakes on its own: permission-gated, inert until you click Start, and dead the moment you leave the panel.
- Nothing watches until Start camera gets a click
- Live only while the panel sits open
- A device picker for every connected camera
- Opt-in module — in no default panel
inert — the lens stays dark until you click
Floating actions
Your buttons, orbiting the island
Pin up to seven one-tap actions around the expanded island. They ride its expansion in and out, so the things you reach for most are always one click away.
- Run an Apple Shortcut, open an app or URL, or run a shell command
- Toggle Low Power Mode, top-up, or overheat protection
- Set the charge limit, cycle audio outputs, or start a timer
- Cycle the approval mode without opening Settings
And everything else
One island instead of a menu bar full of utilities
Every module below lives in the same notch, arranged however you like, under the same one-time license.
Your fleet, in your pocket
The iPhone and Apple Watch companion is in beta. Approvals, questions, and replies reach you away from the desk, and your answer goes straight back to the agent.
- Allow, deny, answer, and reply from iPhone or Apple Watch
- Connects over an end-to-end encrypted relay, your tailnet, or your LAN
- Home Screen, Lock Screen, and watch-face widgets for fleet status
- Mute notifications for a while, or while you're active at the Mac
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The Nook · nowClaude Code · the-nook
Run Bash: swift test
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