macOS menu-bar app · for coding agents
Agent Auto-Continue
Your coding agent hits its usage limit at midnight. The limit resets at 3am. You are asleep. Agent Auto-Continue sends the "Continue" for you, right on time.
- macOS 13 Ventura or later
- Apple Silicon and Intel
- Signed and notarized
Free and open source. View it on GitHub
How it works
- 01
Pick a thread
Conversations from T3 Code, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps, in one list, most recent first.
- 02
Write the nudge
Usually just "Continue". Anything you would type into the thread yourself works.
- 03
Choose when
Quick picks for +5 min, +30 min, +1 hour or tomorrow morning, an exact date and time, or as soon as the usage limit resets.
Built to never double-send
Sending a message to an agent twice is worse than not sending it at all, so the app is careful.
- Re-checks the thread before sending, and cancels if it is gone, archived, or you already replied.
- Never retries an interrupted or ambiguous send. It marks it unconfirmed and only reads the thread to check.
- Keeps its queue through quitting, restarts and sleep, and catches up on anything it missed.
- Reaches each agent through its own local interface. No remote service of its own, no simulated keystrokes, no changes to the agent apps.
Also built in
- Keeps going on its own: up to a turn limit, until you stop it, or until the agent says a stop phrase such as "TASK COMPLETE".
- Skips a send while the agent is still at its usage limit, and can start the moment the limit resets.
- Optional remote control from a phone or another agent, through a token-protected API and MCP server, on this Mac or over Tailscale.
- Can keep the Mac awake while queued work waits or runs.
Guides
Short pages on the things people actually search for, plus the docs.
- Auto-continue Codex CLI after a usage limit How to get Codex CLI to carry on by itself when its usage limit resets, using a free macOS menu-bar app instead of a terminal wrapper.
- Claude Code auto-continue: what's built in, and what it doesn't do Claude Code now carries on by itself after a usage limit resets: what the built-in setting does, what it skips, and when an app still helps.
Support this app
Buy me a coffee
Agent Auto-Continue is a side project. If it saves you a night of idle agent time, a coffee keeps it moving.
Support on Ko-fiOpens ko-fi.com/velvetacorn in a new tab.