Kilobat: All-in-one Mac networking for AI agents and humans too

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I build Kilobat, a Mac menu-bar app that brings per-app and agent network usage, connection diagnostics, hotspot controls and traffic-aware keep-awake together. It keeps your Mac awake during transfers and notifies you when an agent’s traffic goes quiet.

For agents running locally on a Mac, the free open-source CLI exposes these network tools through MCP: check for a hotspot before a big download, or investigate the connection when a request fails.

Install with brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat.

Agno’s local stdio setup is MCPTools(command="kilobat mcp"): open it in an async context and pass the toolkit to your agent’s tools.

https://kilobat.app
Source: https://github.com/seifip/kilobat-cli

The CLI/MCP server is GPL-3.0-only; the separate desktop app is proprietary. The CLI needs macOS 14 or later, and Homebrew builds it from source with Xcode 16 or later. Wi-Fi network names need the desktop app with Location permission; filter status and per-network budgets also come from the app.

What connection checks would you want your local agents to handle?