New Open-Source Mac App 'Tomarigi' Turns Claude Code and Codex Sessions Into Birds in an Always-on-Top Garden Window
Summary
A new open-source macOS app called Tomarigi turns Claude Code and Codex sessions into birds in an always-on-top garden window, with developer mohhh-ok releasing version 0.5.0 under an MIT license and requiring no agent-side hooks by reading transcripts directly from ~/.claude/projects and ~/.codex/sessions.
Key Points
- Developer mohhh-ok launches Tomarigi, a MIT-licensed macOS app that visualizes Claude Code and Codex sessions as birds in an always-on-top Garden window, with a latest commit on Oct 4, 2026 improving first-click window dragging on inactive windows and version 0.5.0 released Oct 1, 2026.
- The app requires no hooks or config changes on the agent side, instead reading transcripts directly from ~/.claude/projects and ~/.codex/sessions, and clicking a bird jumps to the running session's pane, though pane-jumping works only with Ghostty.
- Optional bring-your-own-key support uses OpenAI or Anthropic keys for speech bubbles summarizing finished turns and TypeSafe for detecting questions and abuse toward the AI, while voice readout relies on the macOS system speech synthesizer with no key needed, and character images in src/assets were generated with OpenAI's gpt-image under the same MIT license.