--- title: "Gobbl puts Claude Code and Codex in your Mac notch" description: "Gobbl's Agents tab shows Claude Code, Codex, Grok and OpenCode running in your Mac's notch. Allow or deny permission requests without switching apps." date: "2026-09-26" app: gobbl readingTime: "5 min read" image: "/img/build/gobbl/notch-agents.jpg" imageAlt: "Gobbl's Agents tab in the notch: three coding-agent sessions, one waiting for permission, one done, one still working." --- Gobbl's Agents tab shows every AI coding session running on your Mac — Claude Code, Codex, Grok and OpenCode — with a live status for each, and when one stops to ask for permission, you can allow or deny it from the notch without touching the terminal. That is what makes it genuinely useful if you run AI agents for more than a few minutes a day. ## The interruption problem Claude Code stops mid-task to ask permission constantly. Run a command, delete a file, edit something you didn't predict — every one of those produces a request. The right response to most of them is allow, but you still have to give it, and the default route is a context switch: find the terminal window, read what it's asking, decide, go back. That round-trip costs more than the seconds it takes. It pulls your attention out of whatever you were looking at, and if you're in the middle of a thought, you don't always pick it up cleanly when you return. For a single agent running in the background while you write or review, that can happen dozens of times a day. Gobbl puts the request in the notch. ## What the Agents tab shows Open the notch by hovering over it and the Agents tab shows your running sessions. Each entry has the agent name, what it's doing, and a status: working, done, or waiting. The waiting state is the one you act on. When a Claude Code session stops to ask, the request surfaces in the Agents tab with Allow and Deny buttons. You can handle it without switching away from what you were doing, then keep going. Three sessions visible at once is a realistic number if you use parallel agents — one writing tests, one reviewing, one working on a different part of the codebase. The tab shows all of them. ## The 30-second fallback There's a sensible limit built in. If you don't respond to a permission request from the notch within 30 seconds, it falls back to the terminal. The request doesn't disappear — it just goes back to where it would have landed without Gobbl. The fallback exists because Gobbl might be off-screen, or you might have walked away, and an agent waiting indefinitely on a notch interaction is worse than a terminal prompt. ## How Gob reacts Gob, the small retro computer that lives in the notch, has opinions about AI agents. When one is actively running, Gob's screen fills with falling green code. When the agent pauses to think, Gob looks up and a thought bubble appears. When the session finishes, Gob returns to its usual face. After a few days you stop reading these as novelties. The green rain in the corner of your screen means something is happening; the thought bubble means it's waiting; nothing means it's done. You don't have to open the Agents tab to know whether your session is alive. You notice it the same way you notice a status light. ![Gobbl's home tab: Gob with its level, Now Playing with track controls, and the next meeting with a Join button.](/img/build/gobbl/notch-home.jpg) *The home tab. When an agent is running, Gob's screen fills with green rain instead of its usual face.* ## The rest of the notch The Agents tab is one reason a developer might install Gobbl. The notch does other things and most people end up using several of them. The file shelf is the one that earns its space first. Drop files on the notch and they sit there until you drag them somewhere, AirDrop them or share them. Right-click and you get a short menu of practical operations: convert a HEIC to JPEG, compress a video, remove a background, copy text from a PDF. It replaces the part of your workflow that involves a temporary folder and three finder windows. The clipboard history lives on Shift-Command-Space: searchable, with pin support, and set up to skip password manager fields so credentials don't sit in plain text. The chat tab handles reminders and quick questions. "Remind me to push the branch before I leave" sets a nudge that comes from Gob, not a system notification. The nudges are capped at three a day — a limit that turns out to be exactly right once you start using it. ![Gobbl's chat tab: answering "What's on today?" and setting a reminder for 5:00 PM.](/img/build/gobbl/notch-chat.jpg) *The chat tab handles questions and reminders without leaving what you're doing.* ## Dictation and the Gobbl key The right Option key becomes a writing tool in any text field on your Mac. Hold it to dictate; tap it to rewrite what you just typed; double-tap and you get an edit mode with options like shorter or friendlier. The dictation runs on your Mac using Whisper — no audio is sent anywhere. The [Gobbl site](https://gobbl.xeve.io/dictation) puts the turnaround at about 0.5 s per sentence on Apple silicon. It needs Apple silicon; it won't run on Intel. ## Free and open source Gobbl is free and open source under the MIT licence. The AI features — writing, chat, briefs, and Memory — are free during the beta and will move to a paid plan later. The app has no analytics in it. It needs macOS 14 or later. On Macs without a notch it appears as a small pill at the top of the screen. It updates itself automatically. The code is at [github.com/xeveio/gobbl](https://github.com/xeveio/gobbl). If the Agents tab is what brought you here, the rest of the notch tends to follow. [gobbl.xeve.io](https://gobbl.xeve.io)