OC-Claw

What OC-Claw does

OC-Claw shows an animated character on the macOS notch or the Windows taskbar that reacts when OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI or Hermes Agent are working, idle or waiting. On macOS, hovering over the notch opens a session detail panel. It discovers local OpenClaw agents with session lists, chat history and daily call and token charts, and listens to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI through installed hooks.

Hermes Agent is connected through a plugin that feeds an event parser. The README also says the app can connect to remote OpenClaw or Hermes Agent instances running on servers over SSH. On Windows, Hermes is supported through remote SSH. You can give different agents different characters, load custom animations, set island backgrounds with a crop tool and enable completion sounds. It is built with Tauri v2, React, TypeScript and Rust, and the README is available in six languages.

Key features

• Animated pet that reacts to working, idle and waiting states of your agents
• Hermes Agent monitoring through a plugin and remote Hermes instances over SSH
• macOS notch panel and Windows taskbar placement with session details and chat history
• Custom character animations, per-agent characters and island backgrounds
• Completion and waiting sound effects

When to use it

• Seeing at a glance whether a Hermes Agent on a remote server is busy
• Watching several coding agents from one desktop widget
• Customising a mascot for your agent setup

Who it is for: Developers who run several coding agents, Hermes included, and want ambient status on the desktop.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is one of seven supported agents, tracked through a plugin and, for remote servers, over SSH.

Requirements: macOS or Windows, plus at least one supported agent installed: OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI or Hermes Agent.

Note: On Windows, Hermes Agent is supported only through a remote SSH connection.

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