WickWorking
An agent starts a task, the flame lights up and your Mac stays awake. Several sessions at once? It keeps track of all of them.
For Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and friends
Your agents work.
Your Mac stays awake.
Wick is a little clay candle that lives in your menu bar. It lights up when your AI agent starts a long task, keeps the Mac from sleeping halfway through, and blows itself out when the work is done.
It follows your agent, not a timer.
If your Mac sleeps halfway through a long run, the agent stops. With a classic keep-awake app you pick “2 hours” and hope you guessed right. Wick watches what your agents are actually doing.
Waiting for you
The agent needs your approval. The candle in the menu bar turns orange so you notice, and your Mac is free to rest until you answer.
Resting
The work is done. Wick waits two more minutes in case the agent picks up again, then lets your Mac sleep as usual.
Works with the agents you already use.
Claude Code is followed through hooks, so Wick knows exactly when it works, when it needs you and when it's done. Other terminal agents are detected by their process: if they, or the commands they run, are busy, they're working.
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Gemini CLI
- Cursor Agent
- OpenCode
- Aider
- Amp
- Goose
- Qwen Code
- Copilot CLI
- Crush
- Factory Droid
Using something else? Manual mode keeps your Mac awake for 15 minutes, a few hours or until you stop it.
| Classic timer | Wick | |
|---|---|---|
| Turns on | When you pick a duration | By itself, when an agent starts |
| Turns off | When the timer runs out | 2 min after the agent finishes |
| Agent needs approval | Keeps burning battery | Lets the Mac rest |
| Several sessions | Can't see them | Lists each one by project |
| Lid closed | All the time | Only while it works |
Small, careful, yours.
Built for people who leave agents running and walk away.
Lid closed
Close it, take it with you
Optional. One password, then lid sleep is disabled only while an agent works. It always comes back when the work ends, when you quit, if the app crashes, or below 15% battery.
Restarts
Heals itself
If your Mac shut down with lid mode on, macOS would keep ignoring the lid. Wick notices and puts it back for you.
Privacy
Nothing leaves your Mac
No network, no analytics, no account. It uses the same power assertions as caffeinate.
Many sessions
See every agent
The menu lists each agent with its project and how long it's been at it. Click one to open its folder.
Languages
English and Spanish
Follows your system language.
Open source
Read every line
MIT license. Swift, no dependencies, builds with one script. Fork it, change it, send a pull request.
Install in a minute.
- Download Wick.zip, unzip it and drag Wick.app into Applications.
- Open it. Wick isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so macOS warns you the first time: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
- If you use Claude Code, Wick offers to add its hooks for exact tracking. It backs up
~/.claude/settings.jsonfirst and you can remove them from the menu.
Prefer the terminal?
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Wick.app- Your agent is workingMac stays awake
- It needs your approvalOrange candle · the Mac may rest
- It finished2 more minutes, then the Mac sleeps as usual
- Lid mode onThe lid stays awake only while it works
Questions
Does Wick only work with Claude Code?
No. Claude Code is followed through hooks, which is the most precise. Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, OpenCode, Aider, Amp, Goose and other terminal agents are detected by their process: if the agent or the commands it runs are using CPU, Wick treats it as working.
Why does macOS warn me when I open it?
Wick isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID yet. Open it once, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Wick.app.
Why does it ask for my password?
Only for lid-closed mode. macOS doesn't let a normal app stop lid sleep, so Wick starts a small helper with administrator rights that turns it on and off with your agent. It never asks otherwise.
Is lid-closed mode safe?
Wick restores normal sleep when the agent finishes, when you quit, if the app crashes and below 15% battery. Keep your Mac somewhere it can breathe: a closed laptop in a bag gets warm.
What does it change in my Claude Code settings?
It adds a few hooks to ~/.claude/settings.json that call ~/.wick/hook. The hook saves the session state and exits in milliseconds; it never blocks Claude Code or changes what it does. Your other hooks stay untouched, and turning the option off removes Wick's.
Does Wick collect any data?
No. No network, no analytics, no account. Session state lives in ~/.wick on your Mac.
Is it free?
Yes, free and open source under the MIT license. It started from Caffeinator by Jon Kraayen and is made by Cometa Labs.
Made by Cometa Labs
We build products with agents every day.
Cometa Labs is a digital product studio in Palma de Mallorca. We design and build apps, websites and AI products for startups and companies, and we make small tools like Wick when we need them ourselves.
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