Claude Code permission prompts

Every session,
every prompt.

By herval · Published November 1, 2026

Run a few Claude Code sessions and one of them is always stopped on “Do you want to proceed?” in a terminal tab you can't see. Several Mac apps fix that, and they differ on one thing that matters: which sessions' prompts they can answer. This guide sorts them out.

Is there a Mac app that shows all my Claude Code sessions in one place and lets me approve permission prompts?

Yes, and they split on which prompts they can answer. Notch apps such as Vibe Island ($19.99), Coucou (free) and Vibe Notch (free, formerly Claude Island) hook into the Claude Code sessions in your terminals, so you allow or deny their prompts without switching tabs, but you don't chat with them. littleguys shows every session on your Mac, terminal or background, as a chat you follow and reply to, and answers the prompts of background sessions, the ones started from littleguys or with claude --bg. A terminal session's prompts stay in its terminal.

The apps

1. littleguys

   A WhatsApp-style chat app: every Claude Code session on your Mac, in a terminal or in the background, is a thread you follow live and reply to. Background sessions' permission prompts are cards you answer there.

   Pick it if you want to read and answer your sessions, not just approve them, and are happy to start the ones you leave running as background sessions, from littleguys or with claude --bg.

   macOS 13+, Apple silicon and Intel · Free, MIT · 17 MB · Download it

2. Vibe Island by Edward

   A notch app (a floating bar on Macs without one) for about 30 agents, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw and Hermes among them. It hooks into the sessions in your terminals, and over SSH: you allow or deny prompts, answer questions and approve plans from the notch, then jump to the right terminal tab.

   Pick it if your sessions live in terminals and you want to answer their prompts without switching to them, and don't mind paying.

   macOS 14+, Apple silicon · $19.99 once, 2-day free trial; closed source; no account or telemetry · Claude Code, changelog

3. Coucou by Louis Raillé

   A free notch companion that watches Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Hermes and more through hooks. You allow, deny or always allow Claude Code's prompts, and answer its questions, from the notch or your iPhone's Lock Screen, then jump to the right terminal.

   Pick it if you want your terminal sessions' prompts in the notch, free and open source. It's five weeks old and does a lot besides (dictation, a meeting notetaker, Spotify), so expect it to change fast.

   macOS 15+; Windows and Linux builds · Free, MIT · 36 MB; no account or telemetry · README, releases

4. Vibe Notch by farouqaldori

   Formerly Claude Island: Dynamic Island-style notifications for the Claude Code sessions in your terminals, through hooks, with approve or deny from the notch.

   Pick it if you only use Claude Code and want the smallest notch app. Its last release was in April 2026.

   macOS 15+ · Free, Apache-2.0 · 4.2 MB; anonymous analytics · README, releases

5. AgentBar by michalstrnadel

   One approval queue, in the menu bar or under the notch, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Cursor and more: allow, always or deny, deny with a note, and rules you write. Sessions started before its hooks were installed get a simulated keypress instead.

   Pick it if you approve a lot and want a keyboard-driven queue with rules. It's new, has a dozen GitHub stars and isn't notarized.

   macOS 12+, Apple silicon and Intel; needs Node.js · Free, MIT · 7.4 MB · README, releases

Checked on November 1, 2026 against each app's own site, docs, README and releases.

How littleguys handles permission prompts

1. Add a bot → Claude Code installs the littleguys plugin in Claude Code: a few hooks that tell littleguys when a session starts, finishes a turn or asks for permission. They do nothing while littleguys isn't running.
2. Turn on Answer permission prompts here. Background sessions then wait for your Allow or Deny in littleguys: allow once, always allow (when Claude Code offers it), or deny.
3. Start the sessions you'll leave running in the background: a new thread in littleguys does that (claude --bg, in the folder you pick), and so does claude --bg in a terminal.

The guy in the menu bar switches to “needs you” when a prompt is waiting, and a notification opens the thread. Every other session on this Mac shows up too, to follow and reply to. More on Claude Code in littleguys.

What littleguys doesn't do

• It doesn't answer a terminal session's permission prompts: those stay in the terminal, where you answer them. The apps above that answer them from the notch or menu bar are the ones for that.
• It doesn't answer Claude Code's questions (the multiple-choice kind): open the session to pick an answer.
• It follows Claude Code on this Mac only, and doesn't track quota, usage or cost.

brew install herval/tap/littleguys