Home / Download

Download Silicon Workers

A free macOS menu bar app that monitors your Claude Code and Codex sessions — approvals and finished runs surface in seconds. No account, no server, your data stays on your Mac.

Download Beta for macOS

Version 0.1.1 beta · macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free

What it looks like

Silicon Workers panel: the focus card shows a Codex session waiting for review, below it sections for Waiting for you and Running Claude Code sessions

Install in four steps

Unzip the download and drag Silicon Workers.app into your Applications folder.
Open the app. Three tiny workers appear in your menu bar — there's no Dock icon by design.
Click the menu bar icon, then click Connect at the top of the panel. This installs the Claude Code and Codex event capture (a script that only writes a local log — it never changes agent behavior).
Start a new Claude Code session. Sessions opened before connecting won't report status.

macOS says the app can't be verified? Right-click (or Control-click) the app and choose Open, then confirm. You only need to do this once.

What gets installed where

The app itself lives in /Applications.
Hook scripts are installed to ~/.butler/hooks/.
Session events are appended to ~/.butler/events.jsonl; task state lives in ~/.butler/tasks.json. Everything stays on your Mac.
Connecting appends entries to ~/.claude/settings.json (a backup is created first) and, for Codex, updates notify in ~/.codex/config.toml (also backed up).

Details in the docs: installation, how it works, how to uninstall cleanly.

Requirements

SystemmacOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple Silicon or Intel

AgentsClaude Code (CLI or desktop) and/or Codex on the same Mac

PriceFree during beta; the core stays free

PrivacyLocal-first — no account, no telemetry, no server