Meet Agent Buddy! 🤖 A desk buddy for your AI coding agents. It shows when GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, Grok and others are working, need you, or are done. Run it on an ESP32 device, or use the new desktop app. No device needed! Website: Repo: Special thanks to... Darren ‘Doc’ Robinson (MVP) 🪪 and Brady Gaster for their PRs!show more

now to work out how to expense the hardware to work 😏

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Did similar stuff but of course yours is way ahead (the website is so good)

Nice! Very cool.

Love this!

wait wait i need to send you the speech pr. :)

Yes! 😄 Been working on an "AgentMic" project but haven't had time to get back to it unfortunately.

The key is being able to hand-off to multiple agents though which it turns out is trickier than it seems. Been using Grok Voice as the main entry point (have OpenAI support too) and it's working well overall. But, quite a bit of work to get right.

Love this. Also appreciate the counter to everyone GPU chasing when we skip the capability of the Almighty esp32.

This is so cool !

Thanks! It's been a fun side project. One of those things I actually use everyday.

So much fun ... and useful too! I'm building this one as a series to wrapup 2026, mostly focused on C++ and C# I'll ping you to chat and pick your brain 😁

Fun, fun! Very cool. Ping me any time.

Make sure you’ve got an Amazon affiliate link on that bad boy!

Need to add that I guess 😀

Needs affiliate code on website ;)

Hah - it did cross my mind but decided against it 😄

Do it! Although I ordered from source a 2 pack to save cash

Very cool! Sent support for @cursor_ai CLI agent: Works great too!

@cursor_ai Nice - thanks! I don't have that one to test it out but will take a look.

With several agents running, "needs you" is the state you can't miss. Does the badge also show which repo or window that agent is sitting in, or just which agent it is?

I have been looking at turning a traffic light into something via esphome Now I can just buy this!

Installed and loving it!

Good to hear! Glad it's working well for you.

Woukd love you to show how you created this video also it’s 👌👌

Thanks! I have a nice skill I made that I hope to share at some point (needs some work before I can do that). Item #1001 on the list. 😄

Downloaded. Very cool! How do I handle multiple agents? It looks like this just tracks one session at a time - or is it looking at all of them?

Nice! It tracks across multiple agents (you'll see little badges added for the agents that are working, need attention, etc.). Depends on what agent hooks you enable in settings. I'm working on a new wizard to make the onboarding process easier. Hope to get back to that this weekend. If you hit any issues let me know. Still a relatively early version so plenty that can be improved.

Oh I get it! Would be nice to somehow see what agent is what, but perhaps I don't need that. Will report back!

Awesome - feel free to add an issues to the repo as you think of ideas or other areas that can be improved.

I will give it a shot in a week or so, I want to get a ESP32 device to run it on! I want to try that experience. Awesome work Dan!

Website doesnt seem to load for me. 🤷

Hmmm - not sure on that. It's up for me right now so wondering if the new domain didn't replicate everywhere? It should've by now though.

Ahh, its working on my personal machine. Not on my work machine. Must be our VPN or cloudflare config.

Good deal. If you end up seeing anything wrong on my end that's causing the issue with the work machine let me know. You're probably not the only one seeing that. 😳