MacOS

Bivor is a free, MIT-licensed macOS desktop app that wraps the pi coding agent in an orchestration layer: it runs each chat as its own isolated pi process, gives every task a git worktree and branch, adds per-tool guardrails and turn/cost budgets, and snapshots the workspace before every prompt so you can roll back. It reads the same ~/.pi/agent/ session and config files as the pi CLI, so terminal and desktop sessions interoperate. It launched as v0.1.0 on 2026-08-15 and shipped v0.1.1 three days later. ...

Electron’s safeStorage is not strong enough to protect the API keys your AI agent app stores. To secure OpenAI, Anthropic, or JWT credentials against other processes and malicious code, use the macOS Data Protection Keychain directly with kSecUseDataProtectionKeychain: true, restrict access to a code-signing access group, and gate decryption behind Touch ID or a password. This guide walks through the threat model, the code-signing setup, and a working implementation that keeps a dozen backgrounded agents from reading each other’s secrets. ...

Sallyport is a free Mac app that holds your API and SSH credentials in an encrypted local vault and executes authenticated actions for your AI agents over MCP. The agent gets the operation, never the key: there is no command that reveals a stored credential and no export route. It runs entirely on your Apple Silicon Mac, gated by Secure Enclave and Touch ID, with no account, cloud, or telemetry. ...

Can Claude Code make a Windows-only HP laser printer work on macOS? Yes, and it is not hype. In August 2026, PolyThink founder Kuber Mehta spent a single roughly four-hour session coaxing Claude Code (Opus 4.8, 1M context) into reverse-engineering the proprietary SPL3 raster language of an HP Laser 1008a — a rebadged Samsung host-based printer that ships with no macOS driver and no AirPrint — and wiring HP’s real codec into the native macOS CUPS stack. The result is a one-command, MIT-licensed installer at github.com/Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos, and it raises a much bigger question about what agentic tools do to hardware tinkering. ...

Dark-Agent is the first open-source Mythic C2 agent with a full in-memory BOF (Beacon Object File / COFF) loader purpose-built for macOS and Linux. Written in Crystal, it loads Beacon Object Files entirely in memory — no disk writes, no temporary files, no child processes — and has been used operationally by the ServiceNow Red Team since 2024. What Is Dark-Agent? A Mythic C2 Agent Purpose-Built for Linux and macOS Mythic is an open-source, cross-platform C2 (command-and-control) framework that makes it easy to extend an agent and swap in alternative C2 profiles without recompiling. Most of the well-known Mythic agents — Apollo, Xenon, Poseidon, and the Java-based options — either focus on Windows or treat Unix as a second-class citizen. Dark-Agent, released by ServiceNow under an open license, is built explicitly to change that. ...

TokenBar is a free, open-source macOS menu bar application that tracks AI token usage and API spending across 25+ coding agents entirely on your local machine. Built as a native Swift rewrite of the earlier Tauri-based tokcat, TokenBar gives developers real-time visibility into how many tokens Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and two dozen other agents consume — without sending any data to external servers or requiring an account. ...