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Automater Lite
Find every session. See who needs you. Track your usage across your AI tools.Find every session. See who needs you. Track your usage.
One tray panel for every AI CLI and desktop app on your machine. A searchable library of every session, a flag the moment an agent is waiting on you, and one usage meter across 9 providers. Free. Local. No signup required. Optional paid upgrades available.
Keep your AIs organized and in view.
Automater Lite pulls every AI CLI and desktop session on your machine into one searchable local library, and keeps an eye on every agent from your tray.
Free · Local · No account required · Sessions stay on your machine
Windows · macOS (Apple silicon) · Linux
Open Downloads on your computer, or email hello@automater.ai.
Free in Lite
Activity, session search and usage in one panel.
Permission prompts, questions and approvals are easy to miss. See who is waiting and which app needs your attention.
Search one local library across your AI tools. Find the conversation you need and resume supported sessions in their own CLI.
See what is left on each connected plan, watch reset windows and spot heavy usage before a limit interrupts your work.
Agent activity
Every AI tool keeps its history in its own window, folder and format. Lite watches all of them from one panel in your tray.
Without Lite: Five windows open. Which agent is waiting on you?
With Lite: The session that needs your answer is flagged.
Without Lite: That fix from Tuesday is in some session, somewhere.
With Lite: One search finds it, across all 41 apps and CLIs.
Without Lite: Usage lives in a dashboard per provider.
With Lite: Nine providers, side by side in your tray.
Without Lite
> make the hero responsive
Editing Hero.astro
Thinking
const total = items.reduce(
(sum, i) => sum + i.price, 0
);
$ codex "add rate limits"
Applying patch to routes/orders.ts
Done. 3 files changed.
Anthropic: 71% of plan
OpenAI: see dashboard
Gemini: sign in again
> fix the flaky payments test
Running tests
? Overwrite jest.config.ts (y/n)
With Lite
Needs youVoice · free in Lite
Press your hotkey and speak. On Windows, the words land in the focused window: Claude Code, a terminal, a browser. On macOS and Linux, copy your take from the Voice tab. Transcription runs on your own hardware, and every take is saved.
Pasted into Claude Code, and saved to your history.
And it talks back
Claude Code can read its status and questions aloud through Lite, in a local voice, so you know without watching the terminal. Cloud voice, for when this PC is busy, is part of PRO.
Compatibility
All 41 are listed here. Type to check yours.
41 apps and CLIs, 45 session formats, 9 providers metered, 11 one-click resumes.
Claude Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
Codex
Audited August 18
In Lite
Capability audit
Cursor
Audited August 18
In Lite
Capability audit
Gemini
No audit yet
In Lite
Grok
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
Copilot
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
Windsurf
No audit yet
In Lite
Aider
No audit yet
In Lite
Kimi
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
Qwen Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
Z.ai GLM
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
OpenCode
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
Antigravity
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
VS Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
Warp
No audit yet
In Lite
Pi
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
Muse Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
MiniMax
Audited August 21
In Lite
Capability audit
DeepSeek
No audit yet
In Lite
Kiro
No audit yet
In Lite
Kilo Code
No audit yet
In Lite
OpenHands
No audit yet
In Lite
Amp
No audit yet
In Lite
Mistral Vibe
No audit yet
In Lite
gptme
No audit yet
In Lite
iFlow
No audit yet
In Lite
Poolside
No audit yet
In Lite
Shelley
No audit yet
In Lite
Posit Assistant
No audit yet
In Lite
MiMoCode
No audit yet
In Lite
Claude Cowork
Audited August 19
In Lite
Capability audit
QwenPaw
No audit yet
In Lite
Codebuff
No audit yet
In Lite
Command Code
No audit yet
In Lite
IcodeMate
No audit yet
In Lite
Omnigent
No audit yet
In Lite
Grok Bot
No audit yet
In Lite
Roo Code
No audit yet
In Lite
goose
No audit yet
In Lite
Trae
No audit yet
In Lite
Forge
No audit yet
In Lite
Free forever. It reads the history you already have, from the first launch.
Missing yours? Tell usFour chapters. Skip to any of them.
Chapter 1 of 4
Every session, one library.
Lite reads the files your AI tools already save. 41 apps and CLIs, 45 formats.
Chapter 2 of 4
Know the moment an agent needs you.
When an agent stops to ask, its session is flagged, even with that app in the background.
Chapter 3 of 4
Every plan’s usage, at a glance.
Nine providers metered, in your tray.
Chapter 4 of 4
Say it. Lite types it.
Free, and it runs on your own machine.
Lite reads the session files your AI tools already save and turns them into one searchable library.
Free forever. No account. Signed installer.
How it works
No account and no setup wizard. The whole thing takes about a minute.
A signed installer for Windows, macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux. Authenticode on Windows, signed and notarized on macOS (Apple silicon). It installs offline and updates itself with minisign-verified payloads.
Every AI CLI and desktop app writes its transcripts somewhere on your disk. Lite knows where 41 of them write, in 45 formats, and indexes those files on your machine. Session content stays on your disk.
Click the tray icon for the panel: search sessions, reopen one in its own CLI, see who is waiting, check usage.
Click the tray icon and Lite comes up over whatever you’re doing. It stays put while you work; click the icon again and it’s gone.
Pin it and Lite keeps its own strip of screen, and your other windows make room instead of hiding behind it. On Windows.
Park it off-screen. Point at the right edge and it slides in; move away and it slides back out.
Turn Always on top off and Lite is just another window: drag it anywhere, stack it with the rest, alt-tab back to it.
Right where 41 apps and CLIs already save them.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 38 more
45 formats, indexed here
A local file. It stays on your disk and searchable, whether or not you ever pay.
Local voice is transcribed on this machine too. Lite needs no account.
On by default. Counts, never your content. Switch them off in Settings at any time.
Nothing is published unless you choose to publish it.
Cloud dictation sends audio; cloud playback and optional cloud rewrite send text. These run only when you choose them.
Automater PRO
Everything in Lite stays free. PRO adds the parts that act: chat, control and tools, all from the same tray panel.
Introductory offer
$50/ yearFor the developer who steps in. Everything in Lite, plus the controls. Renews until you cancel; your library stays yours either way.
Upgrade to PROPricing
For anyone running AI CLIs. No account, no card, no time limit.
DownloadIntroductory offer
$50/ yearFor the developer who steps in. Everything in Lite, plus:
Upgrade to PRORenews automatically until you cancel. Your library stays on your disk either way.
For teams rolling Automater out across machines.
Talk to usFAQ
Straight answers. A real person if you need one.
A person reads it and replies by email, usually the same business day.
hello@automater.ai212.951.0062
Replies Monday to Friday, 8AM to 8PM ET.
We only use this to reply. No newsletter unless you ask.
Yes. Running Lite costs nothing and needs no sign-up. The library and its search, the usage meters, the Needs You flags and local voice are all free. PRO is a separate yearly upgrade that adds to Lite; it never removes anything Lite already does.
PRO adds the parts that act: chat and computer control from the tray, managed sessions and inline replies, Fleet and Integration Health, built-in tools and pop-out mini-apps, and metered cloud voice.
Your library is a local file. It stays on your disk, searchable, whether or not you pay. Needs You and approval visibility are never gated.
Session content stays on your machine: Lite reads each tool's own session files and keeps the normalized library locally. Usage statistics are on by default (counts, never your content) and can be switched off in Settings. Publishing to the leaderboard and PRO cloud voice are opt-in.
45 session formats from 41 apps and CLIs: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Windsurf, Aider, Kimi, Qwen Code, Z.ai GLM, OpenCode, Antigravity, VS Code, Warp, Pi, Muse Code, MiniMax, DeepSeek, Kiro, Kilo Code, OpenHands, Amp, Mistral Vibe, gptme, iFlow, Poolside, Shelley, Posit Assistant, MiMoCode, Claude Cowork, QwenPaw, Codebuff, Command Code, IcodeMate, Omnigent, and 5 more. Eleven of those also support one-click resume back into their own CLI.
Windows x64, macOS on Apple silicon, and Linux x86_64 as an AppImage or a .deb. The download page lists only the builds that are published right now.
Not yet. The macOS build is Apple silicon only. If you download it on an Intel Mac the installer will not open; there is no Intel build to fall back to today.
Every build ships as a signed installer, and update payloads are minisign-verified before they install. On Windows the signature is Authenticode and the WebView2 runtime is embedded, so the first install needs no network. You can switch auto-update off and stay on the build you have.
I run about ten assistants at once — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen and a few more — across one Windows machine and the WSL box inside it. That is a good problem to have, right up until you cannot see it.
The losses were always the same three: sessions buried in a different folder for every tool, an agent parked on a permission prompt for an hour, and no single meter.
So I built the tray app I wanted. It archives every session on your own disk, flags the moment an agent needs you, and stays free, because the archive belongs to the person who made it. PRO pays for the parts that act on it, and for the cloud. If it misses something you do every day, write to me.
“AI, stay away. Please go hide in my tray.”
Russell WinslowFounder, Automater · New York
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OpenAI legacy user API keys are reported to stop working Oct 22. Inventory every key your agents read, rotate, canary-prove and revoke by Oct 20, with dates.
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Meta and Sierra announced the Personal Agent Protocol as a preview. Before v0.1 lands, register what each front door lets a customer's agent read and change.
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Codex approval modes and sandbox settings explained: set a workspace-write default, widen access with --add-dir, verify with /status and keep --yolo in a VM.
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Jira MCP setup for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor: connect Atlassian's Rovo server on the v2 endpoint, choose OAuth or an API token, and gate ticket writes.
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