clamshell

Keep your Mac awake only while AI coding agents are working

Keep a plugged-in MacBook awake with the lid closed: clamshell mode without an external display, auto-off on battery. 让 MacBook 合盖不休眠，当 Mac mini 用。

Keep your MacBook awake with the lid closed, on battery, with no external display. A native menu-bar app that uses pmset disablesleep, with an auto-off timer and a battery-floor cutoff so it can't drain your Mac. The open-source, MIT alternative to Amphetamine.

Clapet is a utility that aims to improve clamshell mode on your Macbook by automatically managing sleep when an external display is detected

🪖 불침번 — Your Mac's night-watch soldier. Keeps your Mac awake only while AI agents work. No hooks, no daemon, macOS 13+.

🐚 a daemon that implements clamshell mode on Linux for any init system

macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake, even with the lid closed

Turn off the MacBook built-in display while the lid stays open (clamshell effect) via the private CGSConfigureDisplayEnabled API.

macOS menu bar utility that keeps your Mac awake while AI coding agents are working, and lets it sleep when they're waiting for you.

Keep your MacBook working with the lid closed — screen dark, screen locked, everything still running.

Keep your Mac awake from the menu bar, even with the lid closed. A free, open source caffeine / Amphetamine alternative for macOS, built for developers running long jobs and AI agents.

LidRun keeps your Mac awake with the lid closed — so Claude Code, Cursor, Docker and Ollama keep running with timers, charging-only mode, low-battery stop and battery/thermal guardrails.

Ultra-lightweight, safe macOS lid-closed stay-awake CLI tool for AI agents, local LLMs, and background jobs

Keep your Mac awake with the lid closed — without burning battery. A menubar app for AI-agent and long-running-build sessions.

Close your MacBook lid and keep working — a macOS menu bar app that stops lid-close sleep so Claude Code, Codex & other long-running terminal jobs keep running.

Keep your MacBook awake with the lid closed — no external display, the thing caffeinate and Amphetamine can't do. 🦉 Menu bar app with a low-battery guard, live server & tunnel monitoring with down alerts, and a Claude Code session switcher. Turn the MacBook you already own into an always-on home server. brew install --cask taufiqxr/tap/mcawake

Native macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake, even with the lid closed.

Keep your Mac awake while Claude Code / Codex runs — even with the lid closed — then let it sleep when they're done. macOS menu bar app.

macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake with the lid closed — no external display needed. With time, battery and thermal safety nets.

Brings seamless macOS Clamshell Mode to your Windows laptop.