AgentNotch

Changelog

What's new.

Every AgentNotch release, newest first. Updates install themselves — the app checks twice a day.

1.3.1

Latest

July 26, 2026

New

  • Plan usage tells you whether the limit will last. Every window now shows the percent you've spent and, on the same track, how far through the window you are — so spending faster than it refills is something you see rather than something you work out.
  • When your current pace empties a window before it resets, the countdown stops saying when the limit comes back and says how long you have left instead. It only turns red once the window is genuinely low; a projection is worth knowing, not worth an alarm.
  • Point at a provider's dial and its mark turns into the percent for whichever window is under the most pressure.

Refined

  • Settings shows what a switch does instead of describing it. The Notch pane opens with a miniature of the panel that redraws as you flip Task plan, Cowork sessions or Idle agents; Live Prompts shows a working row becoming a needs-you row, then gaining the Approve and Deny buttons.
  • The preview panels no longer draw themselves as boxes — no rim, no lit edge, just the notch on black.

1.3.0

July 25, 2026

New

  • Claude Cowork sessions appear in the notch. The knowledge-work sessions you run in the Claude app — sorting documents, chasing invoices, drafting letters — sit in the same list as your coding ones, each named by what it's doing and marked with the folder it works in.
  • A Cowork session that stops for you turns red straight away, with the question and its choices on the row. Confirms are caught too, so a “may I delete these files?” says exactly that instead of sitting quietly.
  • Click a Cowork row and Claude opens on that conversation. Sessions running in Claude's own sandbox work the same as the ones running on your Mac.
  • New switch in Settings ▸ Notch if you want the notch to stay coding-only.

1.2.6

July 24, 2026

Changed

  • The Cloud tasks switch is hidden until the feature behind it is ready — it briefly appeared in 1.2.5. Nothing else changes, and the setting returns with the feature.

1.2.5

July 24, 2026

Fixed

  • Clicking a Claude desktop session opens that conversation again. Claude's own update changed the way its sidebar rows are labelled, and the jump had been quietly landing on whichever conversation happened to be open.
  • Jumping to a minimised Claude used to do nothing you could see — the window is restored first now.
  • A click no longer stalls the notch while it waits for Claude to be ready, and clicking a second row always wins over a slower first one.

Changed

  • The notch asks for Accessibility the moment a click actually needs it, instead of checking in silence and landing on the wrong conversation.

1.2.4

July 24, 2026

Refined

  • Token History reads cleaner — dropped the Cursor-by-model breakdown and the per-project list, so the charts and headline stats carry the story on their own.

Fixed

  • The provider split under the total now counts Kimi, so the parts add up to the whole.

1.2.3

July 23, 2026

New

  • Reduce motion (Settings ▸ Notch) — a calmer notch without turning motion down for your whole Mac. The panel fades open with no swell and the tab stops growing toward the pointer.

Changed

  • The notch stops reacting to a glance: “Deliberate” now waits until you actually hold still before opening, and the approach affordance's reach follows your Hover-area setting instead of widening from half a screen away.
  • Live Prompts is honest about which agents can be answered from the notch — Claude Code and Codex. Cursor and Kimi are detection-only, and the copy now says so.

Fixed

  • Updates now reach you. A new version lights a quiet marker in the notch header — click it to update. (Automatic updates were installing silently on quit, which never happens for a menu-bar app, so 1.2.x never updated itself. Existing installs are corrected on the next launch.)

1.2.2

July 22, 2026

Fixed

  • Approving a “don't ask again” request could quietly store nonsense auto-approve rules. The text behind a request is now read with quotes and heredocs respected, a command that contains a heredoc offers no “always” option at all, and any malformed rule already saved is dropped on launch.

1.2.1

July 22, 2026

Fixed

  • The hover highlight on a settings row no longer squares off the rounded corners of the first and last row in a card.

1.2.0

July 22, 2026

New

  • Settings rows toggle from anywhere on the row, not just the switch, with a hover wash that shows the hit area. Rows carrying a pop-up or a button stay control-only.

Changed

  • Settings is monochrome. An ON switch is a light grey pill instead of accent blue; the only colour left in the window is the semantic kind — sound-event dots, hook health, and the trial meter.
  • The License pane is one clear card instead of two that said the same thing twice, with the extra state badges removed.
  • The grace day reads as the kindness it is: an amber meter that refills and drains over its 24 hours, and a countdown that steps down from days to hours to minutes, never seconds.
  • Settings window spacing was measured rather than eyeballed — cards line up with the sidebar, share one radius and rhythm, and About's buttons sit in the card they act on.

Fixed

  • An expired trial now locks on time. The state wakes at each trial boundary and re-checks after the Mac sleeps, instead of a machine left running sitting unlocked in an ended trial with a frozen countdown.
  • Preview stages in Settings now use the same top-lit rim as every other card.

1.1.9

July 19, 2026

New

  • A spent trial now says so. The locked gate opens itself once, softly and only the first time, instead of the app going quiet.
  • Ways to buy while locked: a “Buy License…” item in the menu bar, and a “Have a license key?” link that opens Settings with the field focused.
  • Reinstalling a Mac whose trial is already used gets an honest first-run screen instead of being offered a fresh trial.

Changed

  • The post-checkout claim poll is far lighter, about 34 requests an hour instead of 450, tapering off after the first couple of minutes, with a re-check when you return from the browser.
  • Copy throughout moved from subscription language to the one-time purchase this actually is.

Fixed

  • A failed Keychain read no longer locks out a paying customer. It holds the current state and retries instead of assuming the trial expired.
  • A hard-locked app stays quiet: the completion chime no longer announces that an agent finished.
  • The guided tour, played while locked, no longer leaves the lower panel click-through.
  • The gate's buy button and key link stay reachable at larger accessibility text sizes.

1.1.8

July 18, 2026

New

  • A guided tour — an annotated walkthrough that drives the live panel chapter by chapter. Offered at the end of onboarding, skippable anytime.

Changed

  • Menu bar: consistent symbols, with the learn-and-help items grouped together.
  • Usage strip: a gauge that goes stale fades to a monochrome ghost instead of disappearing, so the strip stops jumping around.

Fixed

  • A Kimi session waiting on a question now correctly shows it needs you.
  • Jumping to a Kimi session lands on the right Ghostty tab.

1.1.7

July 17, 2026

New

  • Kimi (Moonshot) is a first-class provider: session rows, a plan-usage gauge, spend metering, and activity detection.
  • A waiting “Claude has a question” row shows the question itself and its answer options, not just a blind prompt.

Changed

  • Approve and Deny are words-only monochrome — the ask carries the colour, the answer doesn't.
  • The usage strip seats four providers with a compact legend.
  • Updates are checked twice a day.

Fixed

  • When every agent is idle, the panel shows a quiet “No active agents” card instead of blank glass.
  • The open Today spend card no longer clips on one-row panels.
  • The approval confirmation no longer read as “✓ Denied”.

Refined

  • Approval rows explain themselves — hover the command or the escalation reason for the full story.

1.1.6

July 17, 2026

New

  • Idle agents step out of the panel and return the moment they're active again.
  • Clicking a Codex desktop session jumps to the exact thread, not just the app.

Changed

  • Plan-usage meters reworked into compact per-provider gauges — the bar fills as you spend, green to amber to red, with the reset time and percent used right there.
  • Agent rows are one clean line, and worktrees show their repo's name.

Fixed

  • Codex spend no longer double-counts reasoning tokens, and brand-new models no longer price at $0.
  • A background CPU drain is gone — the app now idles at a few percent.
  • Desktop Claude sessions match their exact window, ending misattributed rows.

Refined

  • Settings open faster, with a cleaner, solid detail pane.

1.1.5

July 15, 2026

New

  • Hover a row's status dot, context gauge, or last-active time for a plain-language explanation of what it means.

Changed

  • Plan-usage meters read like a fuel gauge — the bar drains as you spend the window.

Refined

  • Onboarding shows what each status colour means, in step with the live demo.
  • Subagent token counts no longer overflow their row.

1.1.4

July 15, 2026

New

  • Claude sessions running through the Agent SDK (Conductor and friends) appear in the notch even while idle.

Fixed

  • Agents installed under paths with spaces (like Application Support) are no longer invisible.
  • An idle session no longer looks active just because a draft touched its transcript.
  • One-shot claude -p scripts no longer linger as phantom rows.

Refined

  • Long project, branch, model, and host names stay compact instead of stretching the row.

1.1.3

July 14, 2026

New

  • The plan-usage strip shows each provider's real rate-limit windows instead of fixed 5-hour and 7-day slots.
  • Claude's per-model weekly limits appear as their own meters when the provider flags one.

Fixed

  • Codex's weekly window is labelled correctly after Codex dropped its 5-hour window.
  • The collapsed low-quota ring tracks the rolling plan window only.

1.1.2

July 13, 2026

New

  • Buy from inside the app and your license activates itself — no copy-pasting keys.

Fixed

  • The feedback button opens your mail app.

1.1.1

July 13, 2026

Fixed

  • Launch-day licensing polish — activation works out of the box.

1.1.0

July 13, 2026

New

  • Onboarding can set AgentNotch to start at login.
  • Run from Downloads, the app offers to move itself to Applications.
  • Spend surfaces: today's token spend at a glance, with a week of history on hover.

Changed

  • The collapsed notch peek redesigned — quieter, notch-width, symbols over words.

Refined

  • Lower idle battery draw.

1.0.0

July 13, 2026

The first release. Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex under your Mac's notch — live status, needs-you alerts, approvals answered in place, context gauges, plan usage, and click-to-jump to the right window. 14-day free trial.