Six coding agents, one menu bar: where the "waiting on you" signal actually lives

说明与用途

Agent Ping 是一个轻量级状态面板，通过读取多个 AI 编码代理的本地日志，显示哪些代理正在等待输入、空闲或已错误，从而快速恢复工作。

问题

Managing multiple AI coding agents simultaneously is hard because it is difficult to know which agent is stopped or waiting for user input.

结果

Agent Ping provides a lightweight, network‑free status panel that accurately reflects the state of each coding agent by reading local logs, enabling developers to quickly identify and resume sessions that are waiting for input or have errored.

工作流

• Run multiple agents concurrently on a laptop
• Observe that windows look identical regardless of state
• Write Agent Ping to read local logs from each agent
• Parse logs to determine session state (waiting, idle, errored, etc.)
• Display sessions in a menu bar panel grouped by state
• Click a session row to return to the agent’s session

证据

I run six coding agents on the same laptop: Qoder, Claude Code, Codex, ZCode, WorkBuddy, OpenCode.

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The hard part is not throughput. It is knowing which one is stopped.

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Every one of those six tools writes a local log: Codex keeps rollouts, Claude Code keeps transcripts, the others keep session stores and local databases.

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Agent Ping, a menu bar panel that reads those logs and sorts sessions into five states, grouped, with the "waiting on you" group first — and it carries the verbatim question, not "1 pending item".

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The unit of value is one row: a session, a state, a way back.

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