Kitsmith / Dev & Agents / Chimlo
A native activity island for Codex and Claude Code — read questions, approve tool calls, and reopen finished work.
Our take
The most conservative of the agent monitors on approvals: bypass mode is never exposed, and every hook installation is previewed and scoped so it touches only Chimlo’s own config entries. Free, open source, and built without Electron or a web view.
- Price
- Free
- License
- Open source
- Requires
- macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon
- Get it via
- GitHub
- Developer
- Kartike Bansal
Do you use Chimlo?
Who made this
India
Developer of Chimlo, based in India per his GitHub profile. Also known as the founder of SpeedVitals, a page-speed testing tool linked from the same profile.
What it does
Live agent sessions
Follow concurrent Codex and Claude Code work — active, waiting, done, or failed — at a glance.
Claude questions in place
Read the real multiple-choice prompt and send the selected option back to the blocked session.
Scoped Claude approvals
Inspect the requested tool action, then deny it, allow it once, or allow it for the session — bypass mode is never exposed.
Real provider capacity
Shows Codex and Claude usage windows from provider-owned runtime data, without reading credentials or inventing percentages.
Safe agent setup
Hook installation is previewed and marker-scoped, touching only Chimlo’s own entries in Codex and Claude Code configuration.
Native macOS
Built with AppKit and SwiftUI — no Electron shell, no web view.
The deal
- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Not yet notarized by Apple — first launch needs a manual Gatekeeper approval
Privacy: Prompts, transcripts, permission previews, and session details are not sent to any Chimlo service; no telemetry by default, per the developer.
Chimlo — questions people ask
Can I approve a Claude Code tool call from Chimlo?
Yes — inspect the requested action, then deny it, allow it once, or allow it for the current session. Bypass mode is never exposed.
Does Chimlo send my session data anywhere?
No — the developer states prompts, transcripts, and session details stay local, with no telemetry by default.
Is Chimlo free?
Yes — free and open source under GPL-3.0.
Is Chimlo free?
Yes — Chimlo is free.
Can I run Chimlo together with another notch app?
No — Chimlo draws at the notch, so it takes the place of any other notch app (hubs included). Apps that live in the menu bar or on screen stack alongside it fine.
Where can I download Chimlo?
Chimlo is available via GitHub.
Is Chimlo open source?
Yes — Chimlo is open source.
Reviews
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Listing hand-verified July 27, 2026 from the developer's site and public sources.
How Chimlo compares
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Keep Chimlo — stack these next to it
These live in the menu bar or on screen, so they run happily alongside any notch app.
