Agent Island for Mac
Shows coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor in your MacBook notch.
By Tiwari1999. Free and open source, MIT licence.
Agent Island at a glance
- Version
- 0.5.13
- Released
- 4 November 2026
- Download size
- 2.3 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Menu Bar and Notch
- Developer
- Tiwari1999
- GitHub stars
- 1
About Agent Island
Every coding agent you run, in your MacBook notch — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode. Free, MIT, fully local.
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How to install Agent Island on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Agent Island and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.5.13 from Tiwari1999's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Agent Island show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: AgentIsland-0.5.13.dmg (2.3 MB).
What is new in Agent Island 0.5.13
- **Approval cards stay answerable for as long as they are up.** The permission hook had a 30-second timeout, so after 30 s Allow or Deny from the notch did nothing. It is now 310 s, matching the card. **After upgrading, run `agent-island` once** so the new hook timeout is installed. - **A card closes only when its own call is answered.** Before, two identical commands in one session (for example a subagent's) could close each other's card. A card now closes when its own command runs or when you press Esc in the terminal. - cmux: if a reply can't be typed into a busy Claude session, it is queued and sent when the turn ends, instead of being dropped. - Claude Code background jobs no longer jump to the tab they were started from. Checked with a real Claude Code session in cmux: Yes in the terminal, Esc in the terminal, and Allow from the notch on a card held for 40 s.
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