DeckAgent: macOS Agent Monitor

Stream Deck-like agent monitoring on Mac without the hardware

Problem

Users love the Elgato Stream Deck experience for monitoring AI agents, but the hardware is expensive and tethered to a home office; they want a portable, hardware-free lightweight monitoring tool.

Solution

A macOS menu bar/desktop widget app that passively monitors multiple agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) in a Stream Deck-like grid or list, showing run status, latest message, and completion state, with click-to-jump.

Users

Developers, researchers, and power users running multiple AI coding agents on Mac.

MVP

Auto-discover or manually add agent processes/log files; show each agent's status (running/idle/done) and latest output in a menu bar popover; click to jump to terminal window or log; configurable refresh rate.

Revenue

One-time purchase ($9.99) or subscription ($2/mo); free tier limited to 3 monitored agents.

Why now

AI coding agent use is surging and multi-agent parallelism is becoming normal, but monitoring remains scattered across terminals; macOS menu bar apps are cheap to build and ship solo.