Keep your Mac awake only while coding agents work

A developer made a free menu bar app that keeps a Mac awake, lid closed too, only while Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI is working.

Difficulty
BeginnerOur rating
Time to build
est. 2 minutesOur estimate
Monthly cost
Not reported
Revenue
Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
Engagement
0 X likes0 replies · 0 reposts · fetched Oct 15, 2026

What they did

@Vedjrrrr’s Mac kept sleeping 20 minutes into hours-long agent runs.

How it went

HoldMyCode is free; sleep returns when the agent goes idle.

Worth knowing

This is the builder announcing their own tool.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • HoldMyCode

Steps

  1. Open the repo in your coding agent and describe the goal and constraints.
  2. Ask for a plan first, then let it implement in small, reviewable steps.
  3. Run the tests or the app after each step and feed errors back.
  4. Review the diff before merging.

Starter prompt

No prompt needed: install the menu bar app.

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