Your coding agents, at a glance.
Running agents across several projects means checking several conversations for progress. Sideglance puts their reported updates in a compact desktop window, grouped by project and branch.
Pin it above your editor. See what agents are working on, what they've reported complete, and follow links to related work.
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- One board across projects. Scan agent updates grouped by project and Git branch.
- A window that stays visible. Enable always-on-top while you work in your editor.
- Updates from your agents. Connected agents publish and revise short reports through MCP.
- Less clutter. Dismiss individual updates or enable age-based cleanup.
- Your preferred view. Adjust theme, color, text size, and project order.
Status data stays on your machine. The bundled MCP server receives reports even when the window is closed.
- Download a desktop bundle for your platform from Releases. Release builds target macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Install and open Sideglance, then open Settings → Agent integration.
- Install the bundled skill and configure MCP for your agent. Codex and Claude Code both have setup support for these two steps.
- Restart your agent client if needed to load its new configuration, then start a fresh conversation.
- Ask your agent: "Use the sideglance skill to report this task in Sideglance."
Reporting requires a real session ID from the agent client. Configuration alone does not prove reporting works; confirm that your first update appears in the board.
Settings can install both the skill and MCP registration for Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity, and OpenCode. Cursor has MCP registration support; Gemini has skill installation support. These partial integrations require additional setup for reporting.
Sideglance shows what agents report. A visible update does not prove an agent is still running, and a completion mark is the agent's report of completion. Sideglance does not run or schedule agents.
Sideglance now uses sideglance for its executable, skill, MCP registration, and storage directories. On first use, existing status and settings files are copied from the old ctx-ppteer directories if the new files do not exist. Originals remain as backups; subsequent updates go only to Sideglance.
Quit the old app and stop its MCP processes before upgrading. Install Sideglance, then install the skill and configure MCP for each client in Settings. Skill installation disables the old skill by backing up its SKILL.md; MCP registration replaces the old server key. Restart your agent clients to load the new tools. Update any custom instructions to invoke sideglance.
The app identifier has changed, so operating-system window placement and permissions may need to be set again. The GitHub repository and its links retain the old name until the repository is renamed.
Requires Node 22 or newer, npm, Rust, and the Tauri platform prerequisites.
npm install
npm run dev
npm test
cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml
npm run format:checkBuild a desktop bundle with npm run tauri build. See the technical reference for the status schema, MCP contract, source layout, and motion checks.