Pawcessor app icon: a yawning pixel cat on apricot

macOS desktop pet

Pawcessor

A pixel cat that lives on the desktop, works when your agent works, and stays out of the way while you type.

Download for Mac

macOS 14 or later. Universal zip, about 4 MB.

Mac only for now. Want a Windows version? Let me know.

First launch

  1. Unzip Pawcessor-macos.zip and drag Pawcessor.app into Applications.
  2. Control-click the app and choose Open. Confirm Open if macOS asks.
  3. If you still see “Not Opened”, go to System Settings, Privacy & Security, then Open Anyway.

This preview is ad-hoc signed, not notarized. Apple has not checked it. A notarized build comes later.

What you see

Cat in a sphinx pose using a tiny laptop
Working An agent is busy
Cat standing alert with a yellow ping
Needs input Waiting on you
Cat hopping with a green check badge
Done Task finished
Cat standing with a red blocked badge
Blocked Stuck or failed
Cat leaning into a pet with hearts
Pet Click the cat
Cat eating from a food bowl
Feed Right-click the cat

Local only

No accounts, no analytics, no internet sockets. It never asks for Accessibility, Input Monitoring, Screen Recording, camera, or microphone.

Optional Orca support reads one private status file on your Mac. Prompts and code stay unread. Connect Codex from the pawprint inspector if you want Codex full-state; trust the hook in Codex with /hooks. VS Code, Cursor, Claude, and Antigravity are presence only.

Click the cat to pet it. Feed, pause, hide, preview poses, and reset are on right-click. The pawprint extra shows care stats, Connect Codex, and display. After Hide, use show on the inspector.