AgentMicro

Open-source macOS menu bar companion showing live status of parallel OpenAI Codex tasks.

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What is AgentMicro?

AgentMicro is a small, local-first macOS menu bar app for people running several Codex tasks at once. It shows which tasks are thinking, waiting for input, finished with unread results, idle, or in error — and lets you jump back to the matching Codex Desktop conversation with one click. It is MIT-licensed open source, built on the CodexBar codebase, reads task state locally, and never uploads prompts, code, or task history.

Key features

  • Live Codex task status directly in the macOS menu bar
  • Six-block animated icon shows thinking, waiting, unread, and error states
  • One-click return to the matching Codex Desktop conversation
  • Monitors both Codex Desktop and Codex CLI tasks
  • Local-first and read-only: no prompts, code, or history leave the Mac
  • Automatic updates via Sparkle with signed notarized DMG releases
  • Filters archived Codex tasks out of the current view

Pros

  • Free and open source under MIT license
  • Privacy-first: reads task state locally, uploads nothing
  • Lightweight at around 30MB resident memory

Cons

  • macOS 14+ only — no Windows or Linux version
  • Requires Codex Desktop or Codex CLI installed
  • Independent community project, not affiliated with OpenAI

AgentMicro at a glance

PricingOpen Source
CategoryAutomation & Agents
Platformsmacos
Official websiteagentmicro.cc
open-sourcemacosmenu-barcodexmonitoringswiftlocal-firstdeveloper-tools

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AgentMicro FAQs

What is AgentMicro?

AgentMicro is a small, local-first macOS menu bar app for people running several Codex tasks at once. It shows which tasks are thinking, waiting for input, finished with unread results, idle, or in error — and lets you jump back to the matching Codex Desktop conversation with one click. It is MIT-licensed open source, built on the CodexBar codebase, reads task state locally, and never uploads prompts, code, or task history.

What are the main features of AgentMicro?

AgentMicro offers Live Codex task status directly in the macOS menu bar, Six-block animated icon shows thinking, waiting, unread, and error states, One-click return to the matching Codex Desktop conversation, Monitors both Codex Desktop and Codex CLI tasks, Local-first and read-only: no prompts, code, or history leave the Mac, Automatic updates via Sparkle with signed notarized DMG releases and Filters archived Codex tasks out of the current view.

How much does AgentMicro cost?

AgentMicro is open source, so the software itself is free to download, use and self-host. Your only costs are the infrastructure you run it on and any paid services you connect to it.

What are the pros and cons of AgentMicro?

Strengths of AgentMicro include Free and open source under MIT license; Privacy-first: reads task state locally, uploads nothing; Lightweight at around 30MB resident memory. On the downside, macOS 14+ only — no Windows or Linux version; Requires Codex Desktop or Codex CLI installed; Independent community project, not affiliated with OpenAI.