Desk device that shows what your coding agent is doing

A tiny screen on the desk that mirrors the state of a coding agent: thinking, waiting for you, running tests, done. People are building these on ESP8266s with retro-Mac faces. Build the firmware and the bridge.

Requirements

A local bridge script that watches a coding agent's log or hook output and derives one of five states

The bridge publishes the state over a LAN protocol of your choice (HTTP, MQTT or WebSocket)

Device firmware (or a browser simulator of the screen) draws a distinct face per state and animates the transition

"Waiting for you" must be impossible to miss — a slow pulse or a colour, not a static icon

Works with the sample agent log in the repo without any real agent

Bonus Points

A physical button that sends "approve" back to the agent

Idle screen shows the time

esp32agentsdisplaydeveloper-tools

Free stage

MidFree

Starter repo

You connect the GoShip MCP server to Claude Code or Cursor. It records your prompts, tool calls and test runs, and that record is what gets scored.

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