Show HN: Baton - Know which of your AI coding agents needs you
A local command center for every AI agent you have in flight. Claude Code sessions and Codex threads, in one glance, so you always know which one needs you right now. As agents do more work unattended, the hard part stops being doing the work and becomes knowing which of your N running things is waiting on a decision.
- ▪A local command center for every AI agent you have in flight.
- ▪Claude Code sessions and Codex threads, in one glance, so you always know which one needs you right now.
- ▪As agents do more work unattended, the hard part stops being doing the work and becomes knowing which of your N running things is waiting on a decision.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/neilkpatel/baton |
| Publication time | Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:36:43 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-13T02:47:57.406Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-13T03:18:09.353Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _niBDQRCOeuU |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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A local command center for every AI agent you have in flight. Claude Code sessions and Codex threads, in one glance, so you always know which one needs you right now. As agents do more work unattended, the hard part stops being doing the work and becomes knowing which of your N running things is waiting on a decision. Baton reads the signals your machine already emits (zero manual entry) and surfaces the one that matters: the 🎽 "the baton's with you" bucket, an agent that ran its leg and handed back to you. That's the thing that's easy to drop when you're looking elsewhere. It lives in your macOS menu bar (a relay runner + "N batons for you"); click for the full picture, click any session to jump straight to it.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.