DevTrendsDeveloper trends
Accent color

Product

Codewindow – Picture in picture for terminal agents

Hey HN - when I first started using Arc browser from the Browser Company, I loved the picture in picture feature they got for videos running in the background. When you switch desktops or windows, the video would just po…

DTSoftware developmentDTWeb appDTTerminalDTWebDTWindowsDTClaude CodeDTCodex

About

Hey HN - when I first started using Arc browser from the Browser Company, I loved the picture in picture feature they got for videos running in the background. When you switch desktops or windows, the video would just pop up and keep playing in a different desktop and you were able to move the widget around or size it. I found myself having a similar need for coding agents. This is because coding agents like Codex are running longer and longer. If I do not watch it continously, I miss the bad practices it implements or the bugs it introduces. However it is kind of boring to do that too. So I default to dealing with other tasks or just scrolling X.com sometimes. So I built a widget where it reads the terminal for coding agents (Codex, Claude Code and Pi) and when you leave the terminal, it shows you a widget for each agent running with its live actions. From different windows, you can check what it is doing. Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9elzhDGGJRg Website: https://codewindow.app/ Repo: https://github.com/mertdeveci5/codewindow Feel free to add more coding agents to it and open a PR.

Discovery history

  1. Show HN

    Aug 18, 2026 · 1 observations

Discuss this product