Vigil
VerifiedKeeps your Mac awake while your coding agents work, and lets it sleep when they stop.
- Rank
- #41
- All-time rank score
- 6
Developer Tools tool by Mark Phelps on Smol Launch.
- Pricing
- $3.99 once, two Macs
- Launched
- October 2026
- Website
- vigilmac.com
- Maker
- @mark_phelps
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About
Long agent runs die when your Mac goes to sleep, but leaving it awake all day wastes power. Vigil is a native macOS menu bar app that listens to your coding agents' own lifecycle hooks and holds off idle sleep only while an agent is actually working. When the work finishes, fails, waits on you past a grace period, or the agent quits, Vigil lets your Mac sleep again.
A pill at the notch shows what each agent is doing, and you can click a session to bring its terminal or editor forward. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, pi and OpenCode. Hooks discard prompts, messages and tool output, and the app has no analytics or crash reporting.
Vigil needs macOS 14 or later. It costs $3.99 once, and one license covers two Macs. There's no free trial; refunds are available within 30 days.
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Vigil
CurrentKeeps your Mac awake while your coding agents work, and lets it sleep when they stop.
Launched on October 26, 2026#416 rank score
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