Silicon Workers is a free macOS menu bar app that monitors Claude Code and Codex sessions, showing which AI coding agent is waiting for your approval, which is running, and what to look at next.
~/.butler/ on your Mac — nothing leaves itDownload, drag to Applications, one-click connect — and exactly what that click changes on your system.
The hooks → events.jsonl → menu bar pipeline, the six Claude Code events, strong vs. weak signals, and known limitations.
How the notify mechanism is used, what happens when you already have a notify command, and how to roll back.
Remove the app, the hooks, and every trace — it's a few lines of config and one folder.