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A tiny cat that watches your AI coding agents for you

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Love that this isn't another bloated dashboard. The whole point of agentic coding is that you're supposed to context-switch and let the model work; a tiny cat that only nudges you when it actually needs you fits that workflow perfectly. Congrats on the launch!

The mood states are a nice touch, glanceable beats precise for anything living in a screen corner. Also just relate to the actual problem here, I tab away from a session for two minutes and completely forget it exists until I stumble back into that terminal. This is solving a very specific and very real habit of mine.

finally something that tells me my Claude session is about to hit the context ceiling before it silently stalls. the little cat is silly but the live meter actually saved me from a wasted run this morning.

the whole premise is "you switched tabs and forgot" - but the cat itself lives in a corner of a screen you're, by definition, no longer looking at once you've switched away or stepped out for a meeting. does an alarmed session ever escalate past the widget itself, a system notification, a sound, something that reaches you if you're not glancing at that corner, or is the ceiling of the alert exactly the failure mode the product exists to catch, just wearing a cuter shape?

building it as a Tauri widget instead of an Electron dashboard is the right call for something meant to live in the corner all day. what's idle memory actually look like with 3-4 sessions being watched at once?

The moods are the risky part. A tool approval that's blocking right now and a context window that fills in ten minutes are different urgencies, and one alarmed cat flattens them into the same glance. With four sessions running I'd want it to only wake up for the blocking one, otherwise it's alarmed most of the day and I stop seeing it.

The per-session context meter is the right primitive. Usage dashboards tell you what you spent; this tells you what's about to break, and those are genuinely different problems.

One thing I'd want once several are running: sessions aren't equally valuable. I route deliberately — cheaper models doing gathering and research, expensive ones doing judgement and synthesis. A gather session hitting 90% is fine, it's disposable, I'll rerun it. The synthesis session hitting 90% is the expensive one, because its context is the work product, and an auto-compact there quietly loses reasoning I can't get back.

A flat meter treats those identically, so the cat gets alarmed about the wrong one. Some way to mark a session as the one that matters — pin it, priority tag, whatever — would make the alarm mean something. It'd also make subscriptionbox's 75% heads-up land harder, since the early warning is really only worth having on sessions where planning a handoff is worth the interruption.

Leopold's question is the other one I'd want answered — whether pane-to-session mapping survives a restart is the difference between a widget I leave open and one I re-set-up every morning.

The mood states are a good call, by the way. Glanceable beats precise for anything living in peripheral vision.

The context-window meter per session is exactly what I kept wishing existed. I always notice too late that an agent quietly compacted. Does the widget remember your session layout between restarts, like which terminal panes map to which agent, or does it rediscover them fresh every time?

This hits close to home. I run long Claude Code sessions for a data pipeline and losing track of a session mid-context-window is exactly the failure mode you're describing. The mood states (sleeping/running/alarmed) are a nice touch, way more glanceable than a numeric meter. Following to see how the Windows/Linux support shakes out.

A tiny cat watching my coding agents is genuinely delightful — and so useful. Congrats on the launch! 🚀

I feel like coding agents are becoming something you supervise instead of actively use. I'm curious if you've thought about adding simple stats, like which agent spends the most time waiting for approvals or burns through context the fastest.

As someone who really likes cats, this is actually almost a must-have for me. Really fun little thing, I think it’s cool and somehow cozy too, it just gives the whole thing a different feel right away. Congrats on the launch!

love the cat mascot idea, super cozy vibe honestly. one thing i'd want though is a little sound or subtle notification when a session is about to hit the limit so i can wrap things up before it gets cut off mid task. right now i think it just nudges you right when it's already too late, like a few seconds before the cutoff. maybe a heads up at like 75% would be way more useful so you can actually plan the handoff