Watches the AI coding agents in your tmux panes on macOS and tells you which need you, from the menu bar, a floating panel, the status line and notifications; jumps to them, and restores tmux sessions and agents after a crash https://git.soarez.net/sz/dingger.git/atom?h=master 2026-11-03T11:05:57+00:00 2026-11-03T11:05:57+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-11-03T11:05:57+00:00 urn:sha1:bd1eb9ef9b3b89ff5825eb8bf9b2e978167c9ad0 2026-11-01T08:22:01+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-11-01T08:22:01+00:00 urn:sha1:8146d1db419e8bdacd75920da6f3761abf724853 2026-10-30T16:59:43+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-30T16:59:43+00:00 urn:sha1:959f0d46cac1a09d0821da599d8dff54d1147892 2026-10-30T15:27:21+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-30T15:27:21+00:00 urn:sha1:b0cfd10b80443d3f67d263ff4db177bb53cc90ed 2026-10-27T13:27:14+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-27T13:27:14+00:00 urn:sha1:9eddef09c769b315f4eabef6eaf4bb58e70d0966 the ! was the color of the name, read as part of it, and pushed high names two characters out of line. it is now peach (herdr's palette, no status uses it) in a fixed-width column every row has, so names line up. a low agent's name is dimmed to 0.5 (0.7 was hard to see). 2026-10-27T12:12:28+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-27T12:12:28+00:00 urn:sha1:50c433e82c368b9861a89deecb74e5f29fa50353 like "mark as unread" in mail: an agent you have seen (idle) becomes done again, last among done agents of its importance, with no sound or notification. it stays done until you come back to it: leave its tmux window and return, or jump to it. marked while you look at it, it holds until you look away (`held`); a new turn clears it. only idle agents can be marked. - daemon: `pane.mark_unread` on the hook socket; the watcher applies it after the tick's observations (mark_unread, advance's hold rule). - `dingger unread [--pane]`: refuses done, working, blocked, and panes without an agent; returns once the agent shows as done. - pi: /unread (refused while the agent works or is blocked). - panel: right-click an idle agent in the full list, "Mark as unread". - search: ⌘U or right-click marks the selected idle agent; the footer offers ⌘U when it applies; search stays open. tests: unit (hold, jump, new turn, idle only), e2e step 22 (queue position, hold, look away and back, jump, refusals, no sound, menu, the extension), pi-live in real pi 1.4 (a mark, not a turn: an unknown command would also end done), swift selftest (menu only for idle, footer). 2026-10-27T10:15:03+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-27T10:15:03+00:00 urn:sha1:a2378a3ed12e62ea34ad9475084ecb5a387386a5 any pointer movement between press and release started a panel drag and swallowed the click, so clicking a row often did nothing and had to be repeated: in a logged session, 12 of 17 clicks were taken as drags. the 5 that counted waited at most 4 ms and ran `dingger focus` in 60-120 ms. a drag now needs more than 4 points of movement (isDrag, selftest). 2026-10-26T14:32:18+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-26T14:32:18+00:00 urn:sha1:185af91b4d525db6c192a050b53615772fb5fe11 within a status, more important agents are listed first, and so jumped to first; status stays first. a high agent shows a bold ! before its name, a low agent's name is lightly dimmed with "low" on its second line, and it makes no sound (it still notifies and waits in line). in pi, /importance high|normal|low (completes the levels; none once one is typed out, so Enter runs it). the extension saves it in the session as a custom entry (dingger-importance), so /reload, restarts, /resume and restore bring it back; /new starts at normal. it shows a level other than normal in pi's footer, emits dingger:importance { level } for other extensions, and sends it with every report. for other agents, `dingger importance [level] [--pane]`; it refuses a pi that reports itself, whose saved level would win. the daemon stays the one writer of pane state: it writes @dingger_importance (unset for normal), which goes with the agent and survives a daemon restart. `dingger status` marks high and low. tests: e2e step 21 (order, the option, no sound for low, the menu bar, the command, the extension through a harness that now matches pi's extension API), a DINGGER_SOUND seam so sounds are observable, and a status-line check that read the counts once (flaky) now polls. pi-live: /importance in real pi 1.4, its footer and session entry, and the level after a restore; every pi there now uses the test's agent directory (a restored pi read the user's). negative controls fail each part. 2026-10-23T15:45:06+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-23T15:45:06+00:00 urn:sha1:b4f45632debe6b8dc2f44ca6cc1b003d9093ad33 a pane in several sessions (a session group, `new-session -t`, or a linked window) was listed once per session: every agent of a group showed twice in the menu, panel, search, `dingger status`, and the counts. and snapshots saved each session of a group with its own copy of the windows, so restore would have rebuilt them twice and resumed each agent twice on one session file. - a pane keeps its first listing (tmux lists sessions by name) and is attended if the user looks at it through any session of the group. - snapshots keep the first session of each group; the others are not restored. e2e step 19 covers both; the previous binaries fail it. two checks (step 11's and this one) waited for idle after a turn that started from idle, which passed before the turn was even processed: they now wait for working first, and the negative control for group attendance fails as it should. step 18 now waits for the snapshot it later restores from. 2026-10-23T14:58:24+00:00 Igor Soarez igor@soarez.org 2026-10-23T14:58:24+00:00 urn:sha1:12ce9f3f8edc84064458b649e8615247641dad36 within a status, the menu, panel, search, and `dingger status` listed done and blocked agents oldest first (the queue), and the rest by place. now working and idle agents are most recent first: the first idle row is the agent that finished, or that the user looked at, last. @dingger_since now means when the pane entered its current status, for every status (it was set only while the pane needed the user), and survives a daemon restart. the queue selects done and blocked panes by status, no longer by having a stamp. one ordering rule each in Rust (watcher::list_order) and Swift (listedBefore), with tests that fail on the old order; e2e step 11 makes an agent finish while watched and checks it moves to the top of the idle rows. agents idle since before this change share one stamp and keep their place order until they next change.