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Glance is a small screen that sits by your monitor and keeps an eye on your coding agents. When one needs you, it says so in big type. Nothing to check, nothing to dismiss.

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The screen

Two words and a color.

Each state is a short phrase set in 88-pixel type on a 240 × 240 screen. You can read it from across the desk, out of the corner of your eye.

  • 6m so faronit.Refactorpayments API

    Working

    The agent is busy. The bloom turns slowly while it works.

  • 12m so faryourturn.Migrate stagingdatabase

    Needs approval

    It wants to run something and is waiting for your OK.

  • 3m so faroverto you.Pick the newonboarding copy

    Has a question

    It asked you something and can’t go on without an answer.

  • check.3 checkouttests failedFix flakycheckout tests

    Needs a look

    A turn failed. The reason follows on the next page.

  • took 42mallset.Ship therelease notes

    Done

    Finished. It stays green until something new starts.

  • opencodestillthere?Refactorpayments API

    Gone quiet

    Five minutes without a word. Glance says it doesn’t know, rather than guess.

One request

From hand-off to all set.

1m so faronit.Migrate stagingdatabase

  1. 10:02

    You hand off a task.

    Ask Claude Code to migrate the staging database, then get back to your own work. The screen says on it.

  2. 10:14

    It needs you.

    The agent wants to run a migration. The screen turns orange: your turn.

  3. 10:14

    It tells you why.

    Three seconds later the reason types itself in, so you know what’s waiting before you switch windows.

  4. 10:31

    You approve. It finishes.

    You answer in the agent’s own window; Glance never approves anything for you. When the turn ends: all set.

No buttons

It knows when to speak.

The display has no buttons and needs none. It decides what to show the way a good colleague decides when to tap you on the shoulder.

  • The urgent one comes first.

    A session that just asked for you, failed or finished pops up by itself, most urgent first. It won’t cut off a request you’re still reading.

  • Six sessions at a glance.

    Working sessions rotate every 14 seconds. The dots in the corner count them. Anything beyond six lives in the desktop app.

  • While you were away.

    Lock your screen or step out, and the rotation holds still. When you’re back, a short recap tells you what happened.

  • Long titles turn pages.

    Conversation titles show as written, in English or Chinese. They page two lines at a time; the type never shrinks.

  • Quiet when there’s nothing.

    No agents running? It settles into all quiet, then a calm clock.

  • Honest about the link.

    If your computer sleeps or the connection drops for 20 seconds, it says link lost instead of showing old news.

Agents

Works with the agents you already use.

Codex and the Kiro IDE are read from their own local records, with nothing to install. For the rest, Glance adds a small observer hook. It keeps your settings, backs them up, and comes off with one command.

Connect your agents
$ glance install-hooks claude gemini kiro
✓ claude   observer hook added, backup kept
✓ gemini   observer hook added, backup kept
✓ kiro     glance agent set as default

# Not an agent? Anything that runs a command can report in.
$ glance emit --source build --state done \
    --project 'Release build' --action 'Ready for review'

Glance only watches. It never replies, approves, or blocks a tool call.

  • Codex

    Auto-detected

  • Claude Code

    Observer hook

  • Gemini CLI

    Observer hook

  • Kiro

    Auto-detected

  • Cursor

    Observer hook

  • OpenCode

    Observer hook

  • GitHub Copilot CLI

    Observer hook

  • Windsurf

    Observer hook

  • Cline

    Observer hook

  • Qwen Code

    Observer hook

  • ZCode

    Observer hook

  • Grok Build

    Observer hook

Also

Qoder CLI/Factory Droid/Kimi Code/CodeBuddy Code/Augment Auggie/Junie CLI/Antigravity/Mistral Vibe/goose/Hermes Agent/pi/OpenClaw/Amp

Private by design

Your code stays on your computer.

No account, no cloud. The bridge on your computer reads status, keeps only what the screen needs, and sends it straight to the display.

Your computer

macOS · Windows

agents → events

glance bridge

Rust

ChaCha20-Poly1305

Display

240 × 240

Four ways to the screen. It uses the first one that works.

  1. 01

    USB cable

    Plugged in, it needs no Wi-Fi at all.

  2. 02

    Wi-Fi

    On your network, through a tiny broker built into the bridge.

  3. 03

    Bluetooth

    On ESP32-C3 displays, once paired.

  4. 04

    Internet relay

    Optional and self-hosted. Sealed before upload, so the relay only stores ciphertext.

  • What reaches the screen

    Project name, conversation title, state, step count, and short public summaries such as a question or an error. Titles are capped at 96 bytes, reasons at 160.

  • What never does

    Your code, diffs, raw commands, tool output and hidden reasoning. Common credential formats are redacted before anything leaves the agent.

  • Sealed on the way

    Over USB, Bluetooth and the default Wi-Fi link, every snapshot is encrypted with ChaCha20-Poly1305 and acknowledged by the display. Pairing uses a six-digit code on the screen.

The device

Small enough to forget. Clear enough to notice.

A warm white body around a dark, square screen. One shape, three places to put it.

Screen
240 × 240 color LCD
Chip
ESP8266 or ESP32-C3
Connection
USB-C · 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi · Bluetooth LE on ESP32-C3
Setup
Joins Wi-Fi from your phone through its own hotspot, in 20 languages
Updates
Signed over Wi-Fi (RSA-2048) or over USB
Buttons
None
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  • On top of the monitor

    Adjustable clip with a soft pad.

  • Below the monitor

    Freestanding adhesive base.

  • On the desk

    Tilted stand with non-slip feet.

The desktop app

The full story lives on your computer.

The Glance app shows every session, the complete reason behind each request, and all your displays. Pair a display, update its firmware and connect your agents from one place. Close the window and it stays in the menu bar or the notification area.

  • macOS 12+ on Apple Silicon, Windows 10 and 11
  • Several displays from one computer
  • 20 interface languages
  • Syncs at login, pause any time

Questions

Good to know.

Does Glance approve or answer anything for me?

No. It only shows status. Approvals and answers always happen in the agent’s own window, and Glance never changes approval settings.

Do I need an account or a cloud service?

No. The display talks to your computer over USB, your local network or Bluetooth. An internet relay is optional, self-hosted, and only ever sees encrypted data.

Which computers does it work with?

The Glance app runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 12 or later, and on Windows 10 and 11 (x64). Underneath it is a small command-line bridge, glance, written in Rust.

What happens when my computer sleeps?

The display notices the missing heartbeat after 20 seconds and shows link lost. It reconnects by itself when the computer wakes.

What if I run more than six sessions?

The screen keeps the six that matter most and rotates through them. Everything else stays visible in the desktop app.

Can my own scripts use it?

Yes. glance emit sends any state from the command line, so builds, deploys and long jobs can show up next to your agents.