Littleguys is a macOS menu-bar client that aggregates and controls AI agents - Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenClaw, Hermes and any agent speaking the Agent Client Protocol - so you can see who’s working, read recent messages, chat, approve actions and schedule routines from a single compact popover. Each agent shows a live status ring and last message; commands that need human approval appear as one-click cards with options like allow once, always allow or deny. Routines (morning digests, nightly dependency bumps, weekly reports) can be run on demand or on schedule, and agents across multiple machines are discovered automatically over tailnet or LAN. Littleguys is a client, not a hosting platform: it talks directly to agents, holds gateway tokens locally, and intentionally avoids a central account, cloud backend, analytics or telemetry.
The app is free, open-source (MIT) and built with a Rust core plus React on Tauri. It supports macOS 13+ on Apple silicon and Intel and is installed by building from source via a provided install script that fetches any missing Xcode/Rust/Node/pnpm tooling without sudo, places artifacts in ~/.littleguys and produces littleguys.app in /Applications. The project emphasizes transparency and local control, exposes its code on GitHub, and registers new agents through the ACP registry so existing agent deployments are one click away from the UI.
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