I have been running more local AI coding agents lately: Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, and a few terminal-heavy workflows. The useful part is obvious, but the day-to-day ergonomics can get messy quickly.
Each agent has its own terminal, its own waiting state, its own approval prompts, and its own history. If I look away at the wrong moment, I miss the fact that one of them is blocked waiting for a decision.
So I built Agent Island, a native macOS utility that turns the notch area into a small workspace for local AI coding agents.
It is not another coding agent. It sits next to the tools I already use and keeps their session state visible.
What it does
