v0.4.2 · public beta·Apple Silicon only

Stop window-switching
to babysit your agents.

Quorum is a Rust menu-bar agent that turns your MacBook notch into a live command surface for Claude Code and Codex. Approvals, usage, compactions, completed turns — visible without changing windows.

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⇧⌘Jjumps to your next session

QuorumFileEditViewWindowHelp

Mon May 4 7:07 PM

~/quorum — claude — ⌘1

➜ ~/quorum git:(main) ✗ claude --continue

● Resuming session 0xA73C · 4 turns · 12.4k ctx

● Read(rust/src/island/render.rs)

↪ 412 lines · 18 KB

● Edit(QuorumSettings/SettingsWindow.swift)

Added 2 lines, removed 1 line

214 - await loadSession()

214 + await loadSession(continueExisting: true)

215 + bridge.broadcast(.sessionResumed(id))

● Bash(cargo build --release -p quorum)

Compiling quorum v0.4.2

Finished `release` profile [optimized] in 4.21s

✻ Nucleating… (0s · thinking with xhigh effort)

➜ ~/quorum git:(main) ✗

▸▸ auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle) · esc to interrupt

Sessions

Recordings

notes.md

agent.log

01 / States

Six states.
Always in view.

The overlay never asks for a window switch. Whatever the agent is doing — waiting, streaming, asking permission, finishing — the current state lives at the top of the screen, where your eyes already pass.

01 / 06

Idle

No active turn. Quorum sleeps.

02 / Pipeline

Hooks → Quorum → You.

No polling. Claude Code and Codex emit lifecycle events through native hook commands; Quorum receives them on a local socket and renders the notch with Metal. Your move.

Hook

claude / codex config

01// ~/.claude/settings.json
02{ "hooks": { "Stop": [
03  { "type": "command", "command": "quorum hook --source claude" }
04] }} 
05 
06# ~/.codex/config.toml
07[notify]
08command = ["quorum", "hook", "--source", "codex"]

Both agents call a tiny shell hook on every lifecycle event — no SDK, no daemon to babysit.

Quorum

local · Rust + Metal

socket/tmp/quorum.sock

rust agentserving
metal renderer60 fps
claude transcriptsreading local
codex transcriptsreading local
cloud bytes sent0

The Rust agent drives a Metal-rendered island. Settings sync through a Swift helper. Nothing crosses the network.

You

⇧⌘J — jump to session

⇧⌘Jnext

⇧⌘Kprev

Carbon-style hotkeys step through pending notifications and focus the iTerm tab running Claude Code or Codex behind each one.

03 / Shortcuts

One chord.
Right tab.

Notifications stack in the notch. A single chord steps through them and reveals the iTerm tab running the agent behind each one — Claude Code or Codex, doesn't matter. No window picker, no Mission Control.

01 / Chord

⇧⌘J

Focus next session

Step forward through pending notifications. Quorum raises the iTerm tab running Claude Code or Codex behind the alert and lands your cursor inside it.

02 / Chord

⇧⌘K

Focus previous session

Walk back through the stack. Same jump-to-tab behavior, opposite direction — pair with ⇧⌘J to triage a queue without touching the mouse.

03 / Chord

⇧⌘L

Open Planning

Pop the planning tab inline in the island so you can read the current Claude Code or Codex plan without leaving your editor.

Every chord is rebindable in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts.

04 / Manifesto

Local first.
Native always.

Quorum is built for developer machines, not data centers. It treats the Mac as a first-class operating environment — quirks, notch, launchd, and all — and refuses the usual web-app shortcuts.

0pkts

sent off-device

Sessions, transcripts, and usage are read from the local Claude Code and Codex data directories and never leave your machine.

60fps

native Metal

The notch island is drawn by a Metal pipeline written in Rust. No web view, no Electron, no compositor lag.

≤24MB

resident

A single menu-bar agent. The Swift settings helper only spawns when you open preferences.

0ms

polling interval

No timers asking "is something happening." Hooks fire, the island redraws, the queue updates — push only.