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agent-cow

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Guvenlik Denetimi
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  • License — License: MIT
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  • Active repo — Last push 0 days ago
  • Low visibility — Only 7 GitHub stars
Code Basarisiz
  • rm -rf — Recursive force deletion command in install.sh
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  • Permissions — No dangerous permissions requested
Purpose
This tool is a terminal UI and headless monitor that watches your AI coding agents (like Codex and Claude) across multiple machines. It tracks live session status, token usage, costs, and context pressure without relying on cloud dashboards.

Security Assessment
Overall risk: Medium. The application reads local machine state to monitor agent sessions and uses HTTP with websocket subscriptions for multi-machine setups, meaning it does make network requests. It does not request overtly dangerous permissions and no hardcoded secrets were found. However, the automated install script contains a recursive force deletion command (`rm -rf`), which is a notable safety hazard. A typo or unexpected condition during installation could result in unintended data loss on your system.

Quality Assessment
The project is actively maintained, with its latest push occurring today. It uses an established, permissive open-source license (MIT), which is great for adoption and trust. However, community visibility is currently very low. With only 7 GitHub stars, the tool has not yet been widely vetted by the broader developer community.

Verdict
Use with caution: the active maintenance and open-source license are promising, but the low community adoption and potentially destructive installation script warrant a careful code review before deploying.
SUMMARY

Agent Cow: the philosophical watcher of your agents across multiple machines.

README.md

Agent Cow

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Agent Cow is the philosophical watcher of your coding agents across multiple machines.

It watches your agent sessions, shows what they are doing, what they cost, how much context they have burned, and whether they are waiting for you. It runs as a fast terminal UI, or as a headless machine agent that another TUI can subscribe to.

Today it ships with Codex and Claude adapters. The architecture is intentionally provider-oriented, so more agent runtimes can be added later without reinventing the UI or core data model.

No dashboard religion. No cloud dependency. Just a sharp TUI and a cow with opinions.

The cow is a deliberate nod to the long and noble cowsay tradition. If you enjoy ranking terminal cattle, see rank-amateur-cowsay.

See The Herd

The list view is the control tower: what is running, what is waiting, what is quietly burning tokens, and which machine it lives on.

Agent Cow session list

Crack Open A Session

The details pane shows the shape of a single run without forcing you to dig through raw logs: status, spend, context pressure, tokens, workspace, and execution state.

Agent Cow details pane

Follow The Thread

Sometimes you do not need every event. You just need the latest conversation and the last few tool moves so you can tell whether the agent is making progress or waiting on you.

Agent Cow latest conversation

What It Does

  • Watches agent sessions from local machine state
  • Shows live session status: Thinking, Exploring, Compacting, Waiting, Idle
  • Tracks tokens, cost, context usage, and quota/subscription summaries
  • Lets you open the underlying session in the provider app
  • Shows Latest Conversation so you can quickly see what an agent is doing
  • Supports multi-machine setups with a headless agent mode
  • Uses HTTP + websocket subscriptions for low-friction remote monitoring
  • Is built to support more providers and runtimes in the future

Install

Download a binary

If you just want to use Agent Cow, grab a prebuilt binary from GitHub Releases.

Release assets are published for:

  • macOS Apple Silicon
  • macOS Intel
  • Linux x86_64
  • Windows x86_64

Install with one command

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h0ngcha0/agent-cow/main/install.sh | sh

or:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h0ngcha0/agent-cow/main/install.sh | sh

Windows PowerShell:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h0ngcha0/agent-cow/main/install.ps1 | iex

You can override the version or install directory:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h0ngcha0/agent-cow/main/install.sh | \
  AGENT_COW_VERSION=v0.1.4 AGENT_COW_INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/bin" sh

If you prefer to do it manually, unpack the archive for your platform and run:

agent-cow tui

Common first steps:

  • local TUI: agent-cow tui
  • headless node: agent-cow agent --bind 0.0.0.0:8787
  • inspect via CLI: agent-cow sessions list --limit 20

Build from source

If you want to build it yourself:

cargo build --release --manifest-path apps/agent-cow/Cargo.toml

Then run the built binary at:

target/release/agent-cow

Quick Start

Using the built or downloaded binary:

agent-cow tui

Multi-Machine Setup

Run a headless agent on each machine you want to observe:

HOSTNAME=remote-desktop agent-cow agent --bind 0.0.0.0:8787

Then connect from your main TUI machine:

agent-cow tui \
  --machine http://100.x.y.z:8787 \
  --machine http://100.x.y.w:8787

If you want remote-only:

agent-cow tui --no-local --machine http://100.x.y.z:8787

Agent Cow works well over:

  • Localhost
  • Tailscale
  • internal LAN IPs

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key Action
j / k Move through sessions
Enter Open details
Esc Go back
f Open latest conversation
o Open the session in the provider app
m Cycle machine scope
v Cycle view: Focus → Recent → All
/ Filter sessions
r Refresh
q Quit

Why Agent Cow Exists

Because “I think the agent is doing something” is not observability.

You should be able to glance at a machine and know:

  • which agent is alive
  • which one is stuck
  • which one is waiting for approval
  • which one is compacting itself into oblivion
  • which one is quietly burning money

That is the whole point.

Environment

Optional overrides:

AGENT_COW_CODEX_HOME=...
AGENT_COW_CLAUDE_HOME=...

Agent Cow also falls back to normal local runtime locations when possible.

Performance Notes

Agent Cow is designed to stay cheap:

  • staged startup loading
  • persistent caches
  • websocket subscriptions for remote updates
  • fast failure for slow remote machines

If performance is bad, that is a bug.

License

MIT

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