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Lockpaw
Lock your Mac, close the lid, agents keep running
One hotkey covers your Mac's screen without sleeping it. Close the lid and Claude Code, Codex or Gemini keeps working. When one needs you, the locked screen glows and the alert says which agent and why. Touch ID to unlock. Free, open source, no analytics.
Hey PH, Erik here, I'm in Stockholm.
Lockpaw started because I kept walking back to my desk to check whether Claude Code was stuck on a permission prompt. Now the covered screen glows when it is, and I can see that from across the room.
This release adds the thing I wanted most: close the MacBook lid and the agent keeps running, no external monitor needed. It needs a small helper with admin rights to do that, because macOS doesn't offer another way. It only kicks in while the screen is locked and backs off if the Mac gets hot or the battery gets low.
Two people sent code for this one, including a fix for a Spaces swipe that could peek behind the cover. Having strangers fix your bugs is still a strange and nice feeling.
It's free and will stay free. If you end up using it daily, there's a pay-what-you-want supporter licence with a few extra mascots.
Happy to answer anything, especially the "why does it need root" question.
About Lockpaw on Product Hunt
“Lock your Mac, close the lid, agents keep running”
Lockpaw was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. One hotkey covers your Mac's screen without sleeping it. Close the lid and Claude Code, Codex or Gemini keeps working. When one needs you, the locked screen glows and the alert says which agent and why. Touch ID to unlock. Free, open source, no analytics.
On the analytics side, Lockpaw competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 644.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Lockpaw performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Lockpaw?
Lockpaw was hunted by Erik Nielsen. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Lockpaw including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Erik Nielsen