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How it compares
Claude Code's own Agent View and the newer agent teams, as each described itself in early October 2026, and where LampBoard differs.
Written on 5 October 2026 from each product's own description. If one has changed, the comparison is out of date, not the product wrong.
Claude Code's Agent View
The closest relative is in Claude Code itself: claude agents, a research preview. It is a full-screen list of the sessions running in the background, grouped as Pinned, Ready for review, Needs input, Working, Completed and Failed, each with a one-line summary. Space peeks at a session and lets you answer it; Return goes into it.
LampBoard uses the same grammar, on purpose: someone who knows the Agent View is at home. What it adds is everything outside that terminal:
- the sessions in other terminals, in VS Code and in the Claude app, not only the ones sent to the background (it shows those too, as rows);
- sessions on other machines, over
ssh; - a panel that stays on screen while you work, and a lamp in the menu bar;
- the usage left on each account, and when it runs out at this pace;
- sessions that write to each other, and LampMaster, which looks across all of them.
Agent teams in the cloud
OpenAI's Dots, xAI's Grok Bot and Nous Research's Hermes Bot Mode all go towards a team of named agents that talk to each other and call you when they need you. They create new agents, in their own cloud, on their own model. LampBoard creates no agent and has no model of its own: it is the view over the agents you already run, on your Mac. Dots, Grok Bot and Hermes give you a team in their cloud. LampBoard does the same with the agents you already have, on your own machine.
Other dashboards
Other apps list agents too. Some read the state from the transcripts only, so they cannot tell a session waiting for a permission from one that is thinking. Others answer permissions but cannot see how full a context is or which window a session lives in. LampBoard reads the hooks, the transcripts and, with its helper, what only the session knows. It raises the exact editor window, and it covers Codex and remote machines.
What LampBoard is not
It is not a sandbox and not an agent. It runs nothing on its own: every action is a click of yours. It is free and open source, and it runs only on macOS 14 or later.