{"slug": "show-hn-littleguys-claude-code-codex-and-openclaw-agents-in-your-menu-bar", "title": "Show HN: Littleguys – Claude Code, Codex and OpenClaw agents in your menu bar", "summary": "Developer Herval released littleguys, an open-source macOS menu bar app that monitors and controls Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenClaw and Hermes agents across multiple machines. The app speaks the Agent Client Protocol for one-click addition of new agents from the ACP registry, surfaces approval requests as allow-once/always-allow/deny cards, and auto-discovers gateways on a tailnet or LAN. No binary download exists yet; users install by piping https://littleguys.hervalicio.us/install.sh to bash on macOS 13 or later, which builds littleguys.app into /Applications and stores fetched files in ~/.littleguys.", "body_md": "Your Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenClaw and Hermes agents, living in your Mac menu bar. See who's working, who has news and who needs you. Chat, approve and schedule them from one window.\n\nThe guy in your menu bar acts out what your agents are doing. No dashboards, no tab-hunting.\n\nClick the guy for every agent on every machine, with a live status ring, the last message and a quick reply.\n\nCommands that need you show up as cards: allow once, always allow or deny. No more “[y/N]” buried in terminal tab #9.\n\nMorning digests, nightly dependency bumps, weekly numbers. Friendly schedules, run-now, and results that land in a thread.\n\nGuys on your Mac mini, your homelab and your laptop, all in one place. Finds gateways on your tailnet and LAN by itself.\n\nlittleguys speaks the Agent Client Protocol, so new agents are one click away from the ACP registry. It's a friendly face for the agents you already run, not a new place to run them.\n\nlittleguys holds your gateway tokens and approves real commands on your machines. You should be able to read every line of it, so you can.\n\nThere's no download yet, so littleguys builds from source. Paste this into Terminal on any Mac running macOS 13 or later:\n\n```\ncurl -fsSL https://littleguys.hervalicio.us/install.sh | bash\n```\n\nIt installs anything missing (the Xcode Command Line Tools, Rust, Node, pnpm) without sudo or touching your shell profile, then builds `littleguys.app` into `/Applications`. The first build takes a few minutes; then look for the guy in your menu bar. Run it again to update.\n\nEverything it fetches lives in `~/.littleguys`, and you can read [install.sh](https://github.com/herval/littleguys/blob/main/install.sh) before you run it.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-littleguys-claude-code-codex-and-openclaw-agents-in-your-menu-bar", "canonical_source": "https://littleguys.hervalicio.us", "published_at": "2026-10-11 01:19:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-11 01:50:41.149485+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["littleguys", "Herval", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Gemini", "OpenClaw", "Hermes", "Agent Client Protocol"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-littleguys-claude-code-codex-and-openclaw-agents-in-your-menu-bar", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-littleguys-claude-code-codex-and-openclaw-agents-in-your-menu-bar.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-littleguys-claude-code-codex-and-openclaw-agents-in-your-menu-bar.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-littleguys-claude-code-codex-and-openclaw-agents-in-your-menu-bar.jsonld"}}