clawd-on-desk
Clawd on Desk is a desktop pet that shows what your AI coding agents are doing and asks you to approve their tool requests.
What it is good for
- Keeping track of several AI coding agents running at once
- Approving AI agent tool requests without staying at the terminal
- Knowing when a long coding task has finished while away from the desk
- Checking agent progress from a phone
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Install a desktop app or browser extension
Level 3 of 5. Download and install it like any other app or extension.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, Telegram
Momentum
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- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 6,627
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is clawd-on-desk free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (AGPL-3.0 license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use clawd-on-desk?
- No. Download and install it like any other app or extension.
- What does clawd-on-desk work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, and Telegram.
- What is clawd-on-desk good for?
- Keeping track of several AI coding agents running at once, approving AI agent tool requests without staying at the terminal, knowing when a long coding task has finished while away from the desk, and checking agent progress from a phone.
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